Abstract:

The purpose of this paper was to develop an intelligent recognition system consisting of a feature reduction method combining cluster and correlation analyses, and a probabilistic neural network (PNN) classifier to identify different types of hip shape from 3D measurement for each person. Firstly 28 items reflecting lower body part information of 300 female university students aging from 20 to 24 years were selected. The feature reduction method was employed to extract typical indices. Secondly hip shapes were subdivided into five types by a K-means cluster and analysis of variance (ANOVA). Finally the PNN was then trained to serve as a classifier for identifying five different hip shape types. The average classification accuracy of the scheme proposed was 97.37%, and its effectiveness was successfully validated by comparing with the BP and Support Vector Machine (SVM) scheme. Thus an intelligent recognition system was developed to make hip shape type classification of high-precision and time saving.