Probabilistic clustering techniques use the concept of memberships to describe the degree by which a vector belongs to a cluster. The use of memberships provides probabilistic methods with more realistic clustering than “hard” techniques. However, fuzzy schemes (like the Fuzzy c Means algorithm, FCW are open sensitive to outliers. We review four existing algorithms, devised to reduce this sensi...

Fuzzy C-means is a widely used clustering algorithm in data mining. Since traditional fuzzy C-means algorithms do not take spatial information into consideration, they often can’t effectively explore geographical data information. So in this paper, we design a Spatial Distance Weighted Fuzzy C-Means algorithm, named as SDWFCM, to deal with this problem. This algorithm can fully use spatial feat...

A quality of centroid-based clustering is highly dependent on initialization. In the article we propose initialization based on the probability of finding objects, which could represent individual clusters. We present results of experiments which compare the quality of clustering obtained by k-means algorithm and by selected methods for fuzzy clustering: FCM (fuzzy c-means), PCA (possibilistic ...

This paper presents a comparison of the three fuzzy based image segmentation methods namely Fuzzy C-Means (FCM), TYPE-II Fuzzy C-Means (T2FCM), and Intuitionistic Fuzzy C-Means (IFCM) for digital images with varied levels of noise. Apart from qualitative performance, the paper also presents quantitative analysis of these three algorithms using four validity functions-Partition coefficient (Vpc)...

Segmentation of digital image plays a major role in computer visualization. It is used to extract meaningful objects that exist on the images. Region based clustering is done to extract objects based on the colors present in the satellite images. The principle of clustering is to identify the similar domains from a huge data set to produce an accurate representation of the image. In this paper,...

this paper presents a fuzzy decision-making approach to deal with a clustering supplier problem in a supply chain system. during recent years, determining suitable suppliers in the supply chain has become a key strategic consideration. however, the nature of these decisions is usually complex and unstructured. in general, many quantitative and qualitative factors, such as quality, price, and fl...

Color quantization is an important operation with many applications in graphics and image processing. Most quantization methods are essentially based on data clustering algorithms. Recent studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of hard c-means (k-means) clustering algorithm in this domain. Other studies reported similar findings pertaining to the fuzzy c-means algorithm. Interestingly, none...

Color quantization (reduction) is an important operation with many applications in graphics and image processing. Most quantization methods are essentially based on data clustering algorithms. Recent studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of hard c-means (k-means) clustering algorithm in this domain. Other studies reported similar findings pertaining to the fuzzy c-means algorithm. Interes...

The management and processing of so-called data streams has recently become a topic of active research in several fields of computer science, notably database systems and data mining. A data stream can roughly be thought of as a transient, continuously increasing sequence of time-stamped data. In this paper, we consider the problem of clustering parallel streams of real-valued data, that is to ...