Abstract

ABSTRACTEfficiently and effectively detecting shell-like structures of particular shapes is an important task in computer vision and image processing. This paper presents a generalized possibilistic c-means algorithm (PCM) for shell clustering based on the diversity index of degree-λ proposed by Patil and Taillie [Diversity as a concept and its measurement. J Amer Statist Assoc. 1982;77:548–561]. Experiments on various data sets in Wang [Possibilistic shell clustering of template-based shapes. IEEE Trans Fuzzy Syst. 2009;17:777–793] show that the the proposed generalized PCM performs better than Wang's [Possibilistic shell clustering of template-based shapes. IEEE Trans Fuzzy Syst. 2009;17:777–793] possibilistic shell clustering method according two two criteria: (i) the ‘grade of detection’ for each target cluster; (ii) the amount of computation, denoted as , required to attain a given .

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