An improved fuzzy clustering approach for image segmentation

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 249-252

  Despotović, Ivana ^a   Goossens, Bart ^a   Vansteenkiste, Ewout ^a   Philips, Wilfried ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fuzzy C means; Fuzzy clustering; Image segmentation; Spatial information

Indexed keywords

FCM ALGORITHM; FUZZY C MEAN; FUZZY C-MEANS CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; FUZZY CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; IMPROVED FUZZY CLUSTERING; NOISE LEVELS; REAL IMAGES; RELATIVE LOCATION; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; SIMILARITY MEASURE; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPATIAL NEIGHBORHOODS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; IMAGING SYSTEMS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 78651070509     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2010.5652637     Document Type: Conference Paper

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