Title :
Comments on “A Robust Fuzzy Local Information C-Means Clustering Algorithm”
Author :
Celik, Turgay ; Hwee Kuan Lee
Author_Institution :
Bioinf. Inst., Agency for Sci., Technol. & Res., Singapore, Singapore
Abstract :
In a recent paper, Krinidis and Chatzis proposed a variation of fuzzy c-means algorithm for image clustering. The local spatial and gray-level information are incorporated in a fuzzy way through an energy function. The local minimizers of the designed energy function to obtain the fuzzy membership of each pixel and cluster centers are proposed. In this paper, it is shown that the local minimizers of Krinidis and Chatzis to obtain the fuzzy membership and the cluster centers in an iterative manner are not exclusively solutions for true local minimizers of their designed energy function. Thus, the local minimizers of Krinidis and Chatzis do not converge to the correct local minima of the designed energy function not because of tackling to the local minima, but because of the design of energy function.
Keywords :
fuzzy set theory; image processing; pattern clustering; cluster centers; energy function; fuzzy membership; gray-level information; image clustering; local spatial information; robust fuzzy local information C-means clustering algorithm; Clustering; fuzzy C-means; fuzzy constraints; gray-level constraints; image segmentation; spatial constraints; Algorithms; Fuzzy Logic; Image Enhancement; Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; Pattern Recognition, Automated;
Journal_Title :
Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TIP.2012.2226048