A mean shift based fuzzy c-means algorithm for image segmentation
- 1 August 2008
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
- Vol. 2008 (1094687X), 3091-3094
- https://doi.org/10.1109/iembs.2008.4649857
Abstract
Image segmentation is an important task in many medical applications. One family of segmentation algorithms is based on the idea of clustering pixels with similar characteristics. C-means based approaches, in particular fuzzy c-means has been shown to work well for clustering based segmentation, however due to the iterative nature are also computationally complex. In this paper we introduce a new mean shift based fuzzy c-means algorithm that we show to be faster than previous techniques while providing good segmentation performance. The proposed clustering method incorporates a mean field term within the standard fuzzy c-means objective function. Since mean shift can quickly and reliably find cluster centres, the entire strategy is capable of optimally segmenting clusters within an image.Keywords
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