Jensen-Tsalli’s Intuitionistic Fuzzy Divergence Measure and Its Applications in Medical Analysis and Pattern Recognition

Vagueness in scientific studies poses a challenge. Intuitionistic Fuzzy Set (IFS) theory has emerged as a powerful and flexible tool to counter such challenge. So, there is a need to develop such measures which can not only measure the vagueness but also quantify the differences in underlying IFSs. The aim of this communication is to introduce one such divergence measure called Intuitionistic Fuzzy Jensen-Tsalli Divergence measure in the settings of IFS theory. The presence of parameters makes the proposed divergence measure flexible and competent for applications. Besides discussing some of its major properties, the findings are applied in pattern recognition problem and in medical diagnosis of some diseases with same set of symptoms. The performance of the proposed measure is genuinely compared with some other existing measures in literature through numerical examples based on medical diagnosis and pattern recognition.