Kusum Yadav¹, Yasser Alharbi¹, Eissa Jaber Alreshidi¹, Abdulrahman Alreshidi¹, Anuj Kumar Jain², Anurag Jain³, Kamal Kumar⁴, Sachin Sharma⁵, Brij B. Gupta^6,7,8,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.81, No.2, pp. 2665-2683, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.053565 - 18 November 2024

Abstract In today’s world, image processing techniques play a crucial role in the prognosis and diagnosis of various diseases due to the development of several precise and accurate methods for medical images. Automated analysis of medical images is essential for doctors, as manual investigation often leads to inter-observer variability. This research aims to enhance healthcare by enabling the early detection of diabetic retinopathy through an efficient image processing framework. The proposed hybridized method combines Modified Inertia Weight Particle Swarm Optimization (MIWPSO) and Fuzzy C-Means clustering (FCM) algorithms. Traditional FCM does not incorporate spatial neighborhood features, making More >

Xianghui Hu¹, Yiming Tang^2,3, Witold Pedrycz^3,4, Jiuchuan Jiang^5,*, Yichuan Jiang^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.3, pp. 4917-4945, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.054775 - 12 September 2024

Abstract Traditional Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) and Possibilistic C-Means (PCM) clustering algorithms are data-driven, and their objective function minimization process is based on the available numeric data. Recently, knowledge hints have been introduced to form knowledge-driven clustering algorithms, which reveal a data structure that considers not only the relationships between data but also the compatibility with knowledge hints. However, these algorithms cannot produce the optimal number of clusters by the clustering algorithm itself; they require the assistance of evaluation indices. Moreover, knowledge hints are usually used as part of the data structure (directly replacing some clustering centers),… More >

Jili Chen^1,2, Hailan Wang², Xiaolan Xie^1,2,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.48, No.3, pp. 645-663, 2024, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.037957 - 20 May 2024

Abstract Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) is an effective and widely used clustering algorithm, but there are still some problems. considering the number of clusters must be determined manually, the local optimal solutions is easily influenced by the random selection of initial cluster centers, and the performance of Euclid distance in complex high-dimensional data is poor. To solve the above problems, the improved FCM clustering algorithm based on density Canopy and Manifold learning (DM-FCM) is proposed. First, a density Canopy algorithm based on improved local density is proposed to automatically deter-mine the number of clusters and initial cluster… More >