Title
A Hierarchical Feature Decomposition Clustering Algorithm for Unsupervised Classification of Document Image Types
Abstract
In a system where medical paper document images have been converted to a digital format by a scanning operation, understanding the document types that exists in this system could provide for vital data indexing and retrieval. In a system where millions of document images have been scanned, it is infeasible to expect a supervised based algorithm or a tedious (human based) effort to discover the document types. The most sensible and practical way is an unsupervised algorithm. Many clustering techniques have been developed for unsupervised classification. Many rely on all data being presented at once, the number of clusters to be known, or both. The algorithm presented in this paper is a two-threshold based technique relying on a hierarchical decomposition of the features. On a subset of document images, it discovered document types at an acceptable level and confidentially classified unknown document images.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/ICMLA.2007.4
ICMLA
Keywords
Field
DocType
indexing,data retrieval,unsupervised learning,information retrieval,classification
Data mining,Pattern recognition,Document image processing,Data retrieval,Computer science,Document clustering,Pattern clustering,Search engine indexing,Unsupervised learning,Artificial intelligence,Cluster analysis,Paper document
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-3069-9
1
0.37
References 
Authors
7
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dean Curtis1102.36
Vitaliy Kubushyn220.74
Evangelos A. Yfantis31610.80
Michael Rogers410.37