Fuzzy C-means algorithm with local thresholding for gray-scale images

International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 765-775

  Ng, Hsiao Piau ^a   Ong, Sim Heng ^b   Foong, Kelvin Weng Chiong ^b   Goh, Poh Sun ^c   Nowinski, Wieslaw L ^a  

^a AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Clustering; Fuzzy c means; Otsu; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

COPYING; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SYSTEMS;

CLUSTERING; CONVENTIONAL ALGORITHMS; FUZZY C MEAN; FUZZY C-MEANS ALGORITHMS; IMPROVED FUZZY C-MEANS; LOCAL THRESHOLDING; OTSU; THRESHOLDING;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 51449113654     PISSN: 02182130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S021821300800414X     Document Type: Article

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