Fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm with a novel penalty term for image segmentation

Opto-Electronics Review

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 309-315

  Yang, Y ^a   Zheng, Ch ^a   Lin, P ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Expectation maximization; Fuzzy c means; Fuzzy clustering; Image segmentation

Indexed keywords

FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE;

EXPECTATION - MAXIMIZATIONS; FCM ALGORITHM; FUZZY C MEAN; FUZZY C-MEANS CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; FUZZY CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; NEIGHBOURHOOD; PENALTY TERM; SPATIAL CONTEXT;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 31144462162     PISSN: 12303402     EISSN: 18963757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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