Subtractive Fuzzy C-means Research Articles

Grouping Districts/Cities in Kalimantan Island Based on The People's Welfare Indicators Using Fuzzy C-Means and Subtractive Fuzzy C-Means Methods

Cluster analysis has the aim of grouping several objects of observation based on the data found in the information to describe the objects and their relationships. The grouping method used in this research is the Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) and Subtractive Fuzzy C-Means (SFCM) methods. The two grouping methods were applied to the people's welfare indicator data in 42 regencies/cities on the island of Kalimantan. The purpose of this study was to obtain the results of grouping districts/cities on the island of Kalimantan based on indicators of people's welfare and to obtain the results of a comparison of the FCM and SFCM methods. Based on the results of the analysis, the FCM and SFCM methods yield the same conclusions, so that in this study the FCM and SFCM methods are both good to use in classifying districts/cities on the island of Kalimantan based on people's welfare indicators and produce an optimal cluster of two clusters, namely the first cluster consisting of 10 Regencies/Cities on the island of Kalimantan, while the second cluster consists of 32 districts/cities on the island of Borneo.

A PENERAPAN METODE SUBTRACTIVE FUZZY C-MEANS PADA TINGKAT PARTISIPASI PENDIDIKAN JENJANG SEKOLAH MENENGAH ATAS/SEDERAJAT DI KABUPATEN/KOTA PULAU KALIMANTAN TAHUN 2018

Cluster analysis is a data exploration method uses to obtain hidden characteristics by forming data clusters. One of the cluster analysis methods is Subtractive Fuzzy C-Means (SFCM). SFCM is a combination of Subtractive Clustering and Fuzzy C-Means methods. The SFCM method has the advantages of not requiring many iterations and the results obtained are more stable and accurate than the FCM and SC methods. This study aims to determine the result of clustering on the enrollment rate data for Senior High School (SHS) / equivalent. The data used were the enrollment rate data for high school / equivalent level in the Regency / City of Kalimantan Island in 2018 using three variables, namely the Crude Participation Rate (CPR), the School Participation Rate (SPR) and the Net Enrollment Rate (NER). Based on the three validity indices, namely Partition Coefficient Index (PCI) Validity Index, Modified Partition Coefficient Index (MPCI), and Xie & Beni Index (XBI) in the SFCM method, the optimal cluster were two clusters.
 Keywords: clustering, education, Subtractive Fuzzy C-Means

ANALISIS PERBANDINGAN METODE FUZZY C-MEANS DAN SUBTRACTIVE FUZZY C-MEANS

Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) is one of the most frequently used clustering method. However FCM has some disadvantages such as number of clusters to be prespecified and partition matrix to be randomly initiated which makes clustering result becomes inconsistent. Subtractive Clustering (SC) is an alternative method that can be used when number of clusters are unknown. Moreover, SC produces consistent clustering result. A hybrid method of FCM and SC called Subtractive Fuzzy CMeans (SFCM) is proposed to overcome FCM’s disadvantages using SC. Both SFCM and FCM are implemented to cluster generated data and the result of the two methods are compared. The experiment shows that generally SFCM produces better clustering result than FCM based on six validity indices. Keywords : Clustering, Fuzzy C-Means, Subtractive Clustering, Subractive Fuzzy C-Means

Applying random forest and subtractive fuzzy c-means clustering techniques for the development of a novel G protein-coupled receptor discrimination method using pseudo amino acid compositions.

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) constitute the largest superfamily of integral membrane proteins (IMPs) and they tremendously contribute in the flow of information into cells. In this study, the random forest (RF) and the subtractive fuzzy c-means clustering (SBC) methods have been used to determine the importance of input variables and discriminate GPCRs from non-GPCRs using twenty amino acid and fifty pseudo amino acid compositions derived from GPCR sequences. The studied dataset was retrieved from the UniProt/SWISSPROT database and consists of 1000 GPCR and 1000 non-GPCR reviewed sequences. The top ranked RF-SBC-based model discriminates GPCRs and non-GPCRs successfully with the accuracy, sensitivity, specificity and Matthew's coefficient correlation (MCC) rates of 99.15%, 99.60%, 98.70% and 0.983%, respectively. These rates were obtained from averaged values of 5-fold cross validation using only twenty four out of fifty pseudo amino acid composition features. The results show that the proposed RF-SBC-based model outperforms other existing algorithms in terms of the evaluated performance criteria. The webserver for the proposed algorithm is available at http://brcinfo.shinyapps.io/GPCRIden.

A novel human–machine interface based on recognition of multi-channel facial bioelectric signals

This paper presents a novel human-machine interface for disabled people to interact with assistive systems for a better quality of life. It is based on multi-channel forehead bioelectric signals acquired by placing three pairs of electrodes (physical channels) on the Frontalis and Temporalis facial muscles. The acquired signals are passed through a parallel filter bank to explore three different sub-bands related to facial electromyogram, electrooculogram and electroencephalogram. The root mean square features of the bioelectric signals analyzed within non-overlapping 256 ms windows were extracted. The subtractive fuzzy c-means clustering method (SFCM) was applied to segment the feature space and generate initial fuzzy based Takagi-Sugeno rules. Then, an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system is exploited to tune up the premises and consequence parameters of the extracted SFCMs rules. The average classifier discriminating ratio for eight different facial gestures (smiling, frowning, pulling up left/right lips corner, eye movement to left/right/up/down) is between 93.04% and 96.99% according to different combinations and fusions of logical features. Experimental results show that the proposed interface has a high degree of accuracy and robustness for discrimination of 8 fundamental facial gestures. Some potential and further capabilities of our approach in human-machine interfaces are also discussed.