A robust algorithm for automatic extraction of an unknown number of clusters from noisy data

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1223-1232

  Frigui, Hichem ^a   Krishnapuram, Raghu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster compatibility measure; Fuzzy clustering; M estimator; Robust clustering; Unsupervised clustering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FUZZY SETS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

DATA SETS; FUZZY CLUSTERING; NOISY DATA;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0030260017     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-8655(96)00080-3     Document Type: Article

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