In recent years, the Fuzzy Relational Database and its queries have gradually become a new research topic. Fuzzy Structured Query Language (FSQL) is used to retrieve the data from fuzzy database because traditional Structured Query Language (SQL) is inefficient to handling uncertain and vague queries. The proposed model provides the facility for naïve users for retrieving relevant results of no...

In this paper the K-means (KM) and the Fuzzy C-means (FCM) algorithms were compared for their computing performance and clustering accuracy on different shaped cluster structures which are regularly and irregularly scattered in two dimensional space. While the accuracy of the KM with single pass was lower than those of the FCM, the KM with multiple starts showed nearly the same clustering accur...

Image segmentation plays a crucial role in many medical imaging applications. In this paper, we present a novel algorithm for fuzzy segmentation of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. The algorithm is realized by modifying the objective function in the conventional fuzzy C-means (FCM) algorithm using a kernel-induced distance metric and a spatial penalty on the membership functions. Firstly,...

Aiming at partitioning an image into homogeneous and meaningful regions, automatic image segmentation is a fundamental but challenging problem in computer vision. It is well known that Fuzzy c-means (FCM) algorithm is one of the most popular methods for image segmentation. However, the FCM-based image segmentation algorithm must be manually estimated to determine cluster number by users. In thi...

A new robust clustering scheme based on fuzzy c-means is proposed and the concept of a fuzzy mega-cluster is introduced in this paper. The fuzzy mega-cluster is conceptually similar to the noise cluster, designed to group outliers in a separate cluster. This proposed scheme, called the mega-clustering algorithm is shown to be robust against outliers. Another interesting property is its ability ...

In practice, noise images even high noise images are very common. It’s very essential and critical to deal with such kind of images to process real-image segmentation and pattern recognition. In this paper, differences of credibilistic clustering algorithm (CCA) and fuzzy c-means algorithm (FCM) in dealing with noise images are studied and the research shows that in most case, CCA performs bett...

According to the standard fuzzy C-means clustering algorithm performed poor in the clustering effect during the clustering process. This paper presents an objective function optimization based on the attribute weighted and the objective function optimization. Firstly, use a little prior knowledge as the labeled sample. These calibrated samples information are used as the prior knowledge, and th...

Fuzzy C-means clustering (FCM) is an important technique used in cluster analysis. The standard FCM algorithm calls the centroids to be randomly initialized resulting in the requirement of making estimations from expert users to determine the number of clusters. To overcome these observed limitations of applying the FCM algorithm, an efficient image segmentation model, Hybrid Fuzzy C-means Algo...

Glioblastoma multiforme; Necrotic focus; Vasogenic edema; Bilateral filter; Contrast limited adaptive histogram equilization Abstract This paper does the qualitative comparison of Fuzzy C-means (FCM) and k-Means segmentation, with histogram guided initialization, on tumor edema complex MR images. The accuracy of any segmentation scheme depends on its ability to distinguish different tissue clas...