Much research has shown that fuzzy c-means clustering is a powerful tool for partitioning samples into different categories. However, the cost function of the classical fuzzy c-means (FCM) is defined by the distances from data to the cluster centers with their fuzzy memberships. In this study, a new fuzzy clustering algorithm, namely the fuzzy weighted c-means (FWCM), is proposed. In this propo...

The weighting exponentm is called the fuzzifier that can influence the performance of fuzzy c-means (FCM). It is generally suggested that mA[1.5,2.5]. On the basis of a robust analysis of FCM, a new guideline for selecting the parameter m is proposed. We will show that a large m value will make FCM more robust to noise and outliers. However, considerably large m values that are greater than the...

This paper presents a hybrid differential evolution, particle swarm optimization and fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm called DEPSO-FCM for image segmentation. By the use of the differential evolution (DE) algorithm and particle swarm optimization to solve the FCM image segmentation influenced by the initial cluster centers and easily into a local optimum. Empirical results show that the propo...

Challenged by real-world clustering problems this paper proposes a novel fuzzy clustering scheme of datasets produced in the context of intuitionistic fuzzy set theory. More specifically, we introduce a variant of the Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) clustering algorithm that copes with uncertainty and a similarity measure between intuitionistic fuzzy sets, which is appropriately integrated in the clusterin...

An improved initialization method for fuzzy cmeans (FCM) method is proposed which aims at solving the two important issues of clustering performance affected by initial cluster centers and number of clusters. A density based approach is needed to identify the closeness of the data points and to extract cluster center. DBSCAN approach defines ε–neighborhood of a point to determine the core objec...

The clustering algorithm hybridization scheme has become of research interest in data partitioning applications in recent years. The present paper proposes a Hybrid Fuzzy clustering algorithm (combination of Fuzzy C-means with extension and Subtractive clustering algorithm) for data classifications applications. The fuzzy c-means (FCM) and subtractive clustering (SC) algorithm has been widely d...

Clustering analysis is an important technology in the field of pattern extraction and recognition. In order to find the influence of several factors on clustering results using different algorithms and support the decision for power load pattern extraction using clustering techniques, this paper develops the research on the influence of several factors on clustering results using different algo...

Challenged by real-world clustering problems this paper proposes a novel fuzzy clustering scheme of datasets produced in the context of intuitionistic fuzzy set theory. More speci_cally, we introduce a variant of the Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) clustering algorithm that copes with uncertainty and a similarity measure between intuitionistic fuzzy sets, which is appropriately integrated in the clustering...

The fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering algorithm is the best known and used method in fuzzy clustering and is generally applied to well defined set of data. In this paper a generalized Probabilistic fuzzy c-means (FCM) algorithm is proposed and applied to clustering fuzzy sets. This technique leads to a fuzzy partition of the fuzzy rules, one for each cluster, which corresponds to a new set of fuzz...