Title
Object-based cluster validation with densities
Abstract
•In this paper, an object-based clustering validity index with densities referred to as OCVD is proposed. This index uses densities of clusters to capture the exclusive contribution of each data object in both separation and compactness of clusters.•OCVD is superior to many existing clustering validity indices that capture the properties of clusters by using representative statistics such as mean, variance, diameter, etc. The reason is that those indices might not perform well in capturing the whole characteristics of clusters with arbitrary shapes but OCVD is well capable of doing so.•Although there are some existing density-based validity indices, studies show that they have problems such as poor performance on clusters with arbitrary shapes which are not necessarily perfectly separated and poor performance due to relying only on some representative data objects in clusters.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.patcog.2021.108223
Pattern Recognition
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Clustering,Clustering validity index,Internal index,Density-based cluster validation,Unsupervised
Journal
121
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0031-3203
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Behnam Tavakkol131.76
Jeongsub Choi200.34
Myong K Jeong342433.06
Susan L. Albin4314.39