Fuzzy c-means clustering based on spatial neighborhood information for image segmentation

Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 323-328

  Li, Yanling ^a,b   Shen, Yi ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b XINYANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fuzzy c means; Image segmentation; Robust; Spatial information

Indexed keywords

ANTINOISE PERFORMANCE; DISTRIBUTION STATISTICS; FCM ALGORITHM; FUZZY C MEAN; FUZZY C MEANS CLUSTERING; FUZZY C-MEANS ALGORITHMS; PRIOR PROBABILITY; ROBUST; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPATIAL NEIGHBORHOODS;

FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; PIXELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77956292530     PISSN: 10044132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-4132.2010.02.024     Document Type: Article

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