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Strict Intuitionistic Fuzzy Distance/Similarity Measures Based on Jensen-Shannon Divergence
Being a pair of dual concepts, the normalized distance and similarity
measures are very important tools for decision-making and pattern recognition
under intuitionistic fuzzy sets framework. To be more effective for
decision-making and pattern recognition applications, a good normalized
distance measure should ensure that its dual similarity measure satisfies the
axiomatic definition. In this paper, we first construct some examples to
illustrate that the dual similarity measures of two nonlinear distance measures
introduced in [A distance measure for intuitionistic fuzzy sets and its
application to pattern classification problems, \emph{IEEE Trans. Syst., Man,
Cybern., Syst.}, vol.~51, no.~6, pp. 3980--3992, 2021] and [Intuitionistic
fuzzy sets: spherical representation and distances, \emph{Int. J. Intell.
Syst.}, vol.~24, no.~4, pp. 399--420, 2009] do not meet the axiomatic
definition of intuitionistic fuzzy similarity measure. We show that (1) they
cannot effectively distinguish some intuitionistic fuzzy values (IFVs) with
obvious size relationship; (2) except for the endpoints, there exist infinitely
many pairs of IFVs, where the maximum distance 1 can be achieved under these
two distances; leading to counter-intuitive results. To overcome these
drawbacks, we introduce the concepts of strict intuitionistic fuzzy distance
measure (SIFDisM) and strict intuitionistic fuzzy similarity measure (SIFSimM),
and propose an improved intuitionistic fuzzy distance measure based on
Jensen-Shannon divergence. We prove that (1) it is a SIFDisM; (2) its dual
similarity measure is a SIFSimM; (3) its induced entropy is an intuitionistic
fuzzy entropy. Comparative analysis and numerical examples demonstrate that our
proposed distance measure is completely superior to the existing ones
Automatic leukocyte nucleus segmentation by intuitionistic fuzzy divergence based thresholding
The paper proposes a robust approach to automatic segmentation of leukocyte‟s nucleus from microscopic blood smear images under normal as well as noisy environment by employing a new exponential intuitionistic fuzzy divergence based thresholding technique. The algorithm minimizes the divergence between the actual image and the ideally thresholded image to search for the final threshold. A new divergence formula based on exponential intuitionistic fuzzy entropy has been proposed. Further, to increase its noise handling capacity, a neighborhood-based membership function for the image pixels has been designed. The proposed scheme has been applied on 110 normal and 54 leukemia (chronic myelogenous leukemia) affected blood samples. The nucleus segmentation results have been validated by three expert haematologists. The algorithm achieves an average segmentation accuracy of 98.52% in noise-free environment. It beats the competitor algorithms in terms of several other metrics. The proposed scheme with neighborhood based membership function outperforms the competitor algorithms in terms of segmentation accuracy under noisy environment. It achieves 93.90% and 94.93% accuracies for Speckle and Gaussian noises respectively. The average area under the ROC curves comes out to be 0.9514 in noisy conditions, which proves the robustness of the proposed algorithm
Enhancement of dronogram aid to visual interpretation of target objects via intuitionistic fuzzy hesitant sets
In this paper, we address the hesitant information in enhancement task often caused by differences in image contrast. Enhancement approaches generally use certain filters which generate artifacts or are unable to recover all the objects details in images. Typically, the contrast of an image quantifies a unique ratio between the amounts of black and white through a single pixel. However, contrast is better represented by a group of pix- els. We have proposed a novel image enhancement scheme based on intuitionistic hesi- tant fuzzy sets (IHFSs) for drone images (dronogram) to facilitate better interpretations of target objects. First, a given dronogram is divided into foreground and background areas based on an estimated threshold from which the proposed model measures the amount of black/white intensity levels. Next, we fuzzify both of them and determine the hesitant score indicated by the distance between the two areas for each point in the fuzzy plane. Finally, a hyperbolic operator is adopted for each membership grade to improve the pho- tographic quality leading to enhanced results via defuzzification. The proposed method is tested on a large drone image database. Results demonstrate better contrast enhancement, improved visual quality, and better recognition compared to the state-of-the-art methods.Web of Science500866
A Hypervolume Based Approach to Rank Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets and Its Extension to Multi-criteria Decision Making Under Uncertainty
Ranking intuitionistic fuzzy sets with distance based ranking methods
requires to calculate the distance between intuitionistic fuzzy set and a
reference point which is known to have either maximum (positive ideal solution)
or minimum (negative ideal solution) value. These group of approaches assume
that as the distance of an intuitionistic fuzzy set to the reference point is
decreases, the similarity of intuitionistic fuzzy set with that point
increases. This is a misconception because an intuitionistic fuzzy set which
has the shortest distance to positive ideal solution does not have to be the
furthest from negative ideal solution for all circumstances when the distance
function is nonlinear. This paper gives a mathematical proof of why this
assumption is not valid for any of the non-linear distance functions and
suggests a hypervolume based ranking approach as an alternative to distance
based ranking. In addition, the suggested ranking approach is extended as a new
multicriteria decision making method, HyperVolume based ASsessment (HVAS). HVAS
is applied for multicriteria assessment of Turkey's energy alternatives.
Results are compared with three well known distance based multicriteria
decision making methods (TOPSIS, VIKOR, and CODAS).Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
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