A novel method for feature extraction and recognition called Kernel Fuzzy Discriminant Analysis (KFDA) is proposed in this paper to deal with recognition problems, e.g., for images. The KFDA method is obtained by combining the advantages of fuzzy methods and a kernel trick. Based on the orthogonal-triangular decomposition of a matrix and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), two different variants, KFDA/QR and KFDA/SVD, of KFDA are obtained. In the proposed method, the membership degree is incorporated...

The extraction of blood vessels from retinal images is an important and challenging task in medical analysis and diagnosis. This paper presents a novel hybrid automatic approach for the extraction of retinal image vessels. The method consists in the application of mathematical morphology and a fuzzy clustering algorithm followed by a purification procedure. In mathematical morphology, the retinal image is smoothed and strengthened so that the blood vessels are enhanced and the background information...

En este trabajo se presenta un modelo matemático general y operativo para los problemas de decisión unietápicos cuyas consecuencias se cuantifican mediante números difusos. Ese modelo va a permitir establecer los fundamentos de las utilidades difusas mediante un desarrollo axiomático, y generalizar las formas normal y extensiva del análisis bayesiano dando condiciones para la equivalencia de las mismas. Se examinará también la particularización del análisis bayesiano en forma extensiva a la estimación...