Image segmentation by fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm with a novel penalty term

Computing and Informatics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-31

  Yang, Yong ^a   Huang, Shuying ^a  

^a JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Clustering; Expectation maximization; Fuzzy c means; Image segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947105982     PISSN: 13359150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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