A new cluster validity index for the fuzzy c-mean

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 237-246

  Ramze Rezaee, M ^a   Lelieveldt, B P F ^a   Reiber, J H C ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cluster validity functional; Fuzzy c mean; Fuzzy clustering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA STRUCTURES; FUZZY SETS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

CLUSTER VALIDITY INDEX; FUZZY CLUSTERING;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 0032023174     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(97)00168-2     Document Type: Article

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