A novel color image segmentation approach based on neutrosophic set and modified fuzzy c-means

Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1699-1723

  Guo, Yanhui ^a   Sengur, Abdulkadir ^b  

^a ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Clustering; Color image segmentation; Fuzzy clustering; Neutrosophic set

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING; COLOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION; FUZZY C-MEANS CLUSTERING METHOD; NEUTROSOPHIC SETS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMAL CLUSTERING; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; TERMINATION CRITERIA;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84880556112     PISSN: 0278081X     EISSN: 15315878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00034-012-9531-x     Document Type: Article

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