Echocardiographic images are inherent with speckle noise which makes visual reading and analysis quite difficult. The multiplicative speckle noise masks finer details, necessary for diagnosis of abnormalities. A novel speckle reduction technique based on integration of geometric, wiener, and fuzzy filters is proposed and analyzed in this paper. The denoising applications of fuzzy filters are st...

This paper presents a literature review of applications using type-2 fuzzy systems in the area of image processing. Over the last years, there has been a significant increase in research on higher-order forms of fuzzy logic; in particular, the use of interval type-2 fuzzy sets and general type-2 fuzzy sets. The idea of making use of higher orders, or types, of fuzzy logic is to capture and repr...

Fuzzy techniques have been successfully used in various application areas ranging from control to image processing to decision making. In all these applications, there is usually: a general idea, and then there are several possible implementations of this idea; e.g., we can use: { diierent membership functions, { diierent \and" and \or" operations, { diierent defuzziications, etc. In the rst ap...

This paper presents a new approach to acoustic noise identification, by introducing fuzzy modeling techniques. Fuzzy identification is compared to conventional linear identification techniques, using as the system to model a new device called ElectroMechanical Film (EMF), developed by VTT [1]. This device can be used either as an acoustic sensor or actuator. The obtained model represents the be...

The aim of his paper is to present some applications of fuzzy techniques in the optimization-based design of analog circuits. Our approach turns into profit the advantages offered by different fuzzy techniques. Fuzzy systems or fuzzy sets are involved in every algorithm phase. The optimization problem formulation is accomplished in a flexible manner using fuzzy sets to define fuzzy optimization...

Full type-2 fuzzy techniques provide a more adequate representation of expert knowledge. However, such techniques also require additional computational efforts, so we should only use them if we expect a reasonable improvement in the result of the corresponding data processing. It is therefore important to come up with a practically useful criterion for deciding when we should stay with interval...

Adaptive Hypermedia systems are becoming more important in our everyday activities and users are expecting more intelligent services from them. The key element of a generic adaptive hypermedia system is the user model. Traditional machine learning techniques used to create user models are usually too rigid to capture the inherent uncertainty of human behavior. In this context, soft computing te...

One of the ways of attaining higher productivity and profitability in machining processes is to enhance process supervision and control systems. Because of the nonlinear behavior and complexity of machining processes, researchers have used knowledge-based techniques to improve the performance of such systems. Their main reason for using this approach is that a suitable process model is indispen...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a technique used to compare efficiency in various sectors such as hospitals, chain stores, and dealerships. It represents a set of linear programming techniques and uses deter-ministic data (inputs and outputs), in stable conditions. The DEA technique cannot be used when there is data with indeterministic nature, or when there is an environment with dynamic co...

Fuzzy decision making is the collection of single or multicriteria techniques aiming at selecting the best alternative in case of imprecise, incomplete, and vague data. This chapter reviews the fuzzy decision making literature and summarizes the review results by tabular and graphical illustrations. The classification is based on the new extensions of fuzzy sets: Intuitionistic, hesitant, and t...