DocumentCode
60290
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
Volume
22
Issue
3
fYear
2013
fDate
Mar-13
Firstpage
1258
Lastpage
1261
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;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1057-7149
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TIP.2012.2226048
Filename
6336816
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