<s>
In	O
applied	O
mathematics	O
,	O
lambda-connectedness	B-Algorithm
(	O
or	O
λ-connectedness	O
)	O
deals	O
with	O
partial	O
connectivity	O
for	O
a	O
discrete	O
space	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
invented	O
to	O
create	O
a	O
new	O
method	O
for	O
image	B-Algorithm
segmentation	I-Algorithm
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
topology	B-Architecture
,	O
two	O
points	O
are	O
connected	O
if	O
there	O
is	O
a	O
continuous	O
function	O
that	O
could	O
move	O
from	O
one	O
point	O
to	O
another	O
continuously	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
lambda-connectedness	B-Algorithm
is	O
introduced	O
to	O
measure	O
incomplete	O
or	O
fuzzy	O
relations	O
between	O
two	O
vertices	O
,	O
points	O
,	O
human	O
beings	O
,	O
etc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
in	O
image	B-Algorithm
segmentation	I-Algorithm
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
lambda-connected	O
segmentation	B-Algorithm
is	O
a	O
region-growing	O
segmentation	B-Algorithm
method	O
in	O
general	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
can	O
also	O
be	O
made	O
for	O
split-and-merge	O
segmentation	B-Algorithm
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
lambda-connectedness	B-Algorithm
has	O
close	O
relationships	O
to	O
Data	O
Science	O
that	O
can	O
be	O
found	O
in	O
the	O
Book	O
entitled	O
Mathematical	O
Problems	O
in	O
Data	O
Science	O
.	O
</s>
