Pattern Recognition Theory and Applications

Section 1 Pattern Recognition Methodology.- Advances in Nonparametric Techniques of Statistical Pattern Classification.- Statistical Pattern Recognition of Binary Variables.- On the Haar Condition in Algorithms for the Optimal Solution of Linear Inequalities.- Pattern Class Representation Related to the Karhunen-Loeve Expansion.- Sample Size Sensitive Entropy.- An Optimal Clustering Method Based on the Rasson's Criterion and Resulting from a New Approach.- Computational Geometric Problems in Pattern Recognition.- A Coding Approach to Pattern Recognition.- Fuzzy Set Theoretic Approach: A Tool for Speech and Image Recognition.- Syntactic Methods in Pattern Recognition.- Hybrid Approaches to Pattern Recognition.- Pattern Recognition of Relational Structures.- Hybrid Pattern Recognition: A Synthesis of the Numerical and Qualitative Approaches.- Fusion of Multisensor Data in Pattern Recognition.- Section 2 Image Understanding and Interpretation.- Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Image Understanding.- Summary of the DARPA Image Understanding Research Program.- Three-Dimensional Object Representation.- Automatic Interpretation of Lines and Text in Circuit Diagrams.- A Modular System for Interpreting Binary Pixel Representations of Line-Structured Data.- Recognition of Time Varying Patterns in Image Sequences.- Section 3 Medical Applications.- Application of Statistical and Syntactical Methods of Analysis and Classification to Chromosome Data.- Attributes for Pattern Recognition Selected by Stepwise Data Compression Supervised by Visual Classification.- Application of Pattern Recognition to Knowledge System Design and Diagnostic Inference.- Applications of Interactive Pattern Recognition.- An Electrocardiographic Signal Understanding System.- Segmentation-Based Boundary Extraction for Endocardial Definition in Cross-Sectional Echocardiography.- Computerised Anatomy Atlas of the Human Brain.- Section 4 Speech Processing and Other Applications.- Decision Theoretic and Structural Pattern Recognition Methods in Speech Processing.- Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Techniques for Electric Power System Security Assessment.- A Multi-Microcomputer Based Reading Machine for the Blind.- Decision-Set Concept with Application to the Recognition of Hand-Printed Numeric Characters.- On the Development of a Model for Determining the Frequency of Occurrence of English Language Words.- Section 5 Panel Discussion.- Summary of Panel Discussion on Decision Theoretic Methods.- Author Index.