Title
KL Divergence-Based Fuzzy Cluster Ensemble for Image Segmentation.
Abstract
Ensemble clustering combines different basic partitions of a dataset into a more stable and robust one. Thus, cluster ensemble plays a significant role in applications like image segmentation. However, existing ensemble methods have a few demerits, including the lack of diversity of basic partitions and the low accuracy caused by data noise. In this paper, to get over these difficulties, we propose an efficient fuzzy cluster ensemble method based on Kullback-Leibler divergence or simply, the KL divergence. The data are first classified with distinct fuzzy clustering methods. Then, the soft clustering results are aggregated by a fuzzy KL divergence-based objective function. Moreover, for image segmentation problems, we utilize the local spatial information in the duster ensemble algorithm to suppress the effect of noise. Experiment results reveal that the proposed methods outperform many other methods in synthetic and real image-segmentation problems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/e20040273
ENTROPY
Keywords
Field
DocType
fuzzy clustering,ensemble learning,KL divergence,spatial information,image segmentation
Spatial analysis,Fuzzy clustering,Mathematical optimization,Divergence,Pattern recognition,Fuzzy logic,Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence,Cluster analysis,Ensemble learning,Mathematics,Kullback–Leibler divergence
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
20
4
1099-4300
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.41
16
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Huiqin Wei130.41
Long Chen252849.21
Li Guo35818.35