A robust fuzzy clustering algorithm using spatial information combined with local membership filtering for brain MR images

Author(s):  
Lanting Li ◽  
Peng Cao ◽  
Jinzhu Yang ◽  
Dazhe Zhao ◽  
Osmar R. Zaiane
Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (15) ◽  
pp. 3285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hang Zhang ◽  
Jian Liu ◽  
Lin Chen ◽  
Ning Chen ◽  
Xiao Yang

Due to the limitation of the fixed structures of neighborhood windows, the quality of spatial information obtained from the neighborhood pixels may be affected by noise. In order to compensate this drawback, a robust fuzzy c-means clustering with non-neighborhood spatial information (FCM_NNS) is presented. Through incorporating non-neighborhood spatial information, the robustness performance of the proposed FCM_NNS with respect to the noise can be significantly improved. The results indicate that FCM_NNS is very effective and robust to noisy aliasing images. Moreover, the comparison of other seven roughness indexes indicates that the proposed FCM_NNS-based F index can characterize the aliasing degree in the surface images and is highly correlated with surface roughness (R2 = 0.9327 for thirty grinding samples).


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