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Intuitionistic Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm Based on Membership Information Transfer-Ring and Similarity Measurement

The fuzzy C-means clustering (FCM) algorithm is used widely in medical image segmentation and suitable for segmenting brain tumors. Therefore, an intuitionistic fuzzy C-means algorithm based on membership information transferring and similarity measurements (IFCM-MS) is proposed to segment brain tum...

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Autores principales: Chen, Haipeng, Xie, Zeyu, Huang, Yongping, Gai, Di
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7864181/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33498422
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21030696
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author Chen, Haipeng
Xie, Zeyu
Huang, Yongping
Gai, Di
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description The fuzzy C-means clustering (FCM) algorithm is used widely in medical image segmentation and suitable for segmenting brain tumors. Therefore, an intuitionistic fuzzy C-means algorithm based on membership information transferring and similarity measurements (IFCM-MS) is proposed to segment brain tumor magnetic resonance images (MRI) in this paper. The original FCM lacks spatial information, which leads to a high noise sensitivity. To address this issue, the membership information transfer model is adopted to the IFCM-MS. Specifically, neighborhood information and the similarity of adjacent iterations are incorporated into the clustering process. Besides, FCM uses simple distance measurements to calculate the membership degree, which causes an unsatisfactory result. So, a similarity measurement method is designed in the IFCM-MS to improve the membership calculation, in which gray information and distance information are fused adaptively. In addition, the complex structure of the brain results in MRIs with uncertainty boundary tissues. To overcome this problem, an intuitive fuzzy attribute is embedded into the IFCM-MS. Experiments performed on real brain tumor images demonstrate that our IFCM-MS has low noise sensitivity and high segmentation accuracy.
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spelling pubmed-78641812021-02-06 Intuitionistic Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm Based on Membership Information Transfer-Ring and Similarity Measurement Chen, Haipeng Xie, Zeyu Huang, Yongping Gai, Di Sensors (Basel) Article The fuzzy C-means clustering (FCM) algorithm is used widely in medical image segmentation and suitable for segmenting brain tumors. Therefore, an intuitionistic fuzzy C-means algorithm based on membership information transferring and similarity measurements (IFCM-MS) is proposed to segment brain tumor magnetic resonance images (MRI) in this paper. The original FCM lacks spatial information, which leads to a high noise sensitivity. To address this issue, the membership information transfer model is adopted to the IFCM-MS. Specifically, neighborhood information and the similarity of adjacent iterations are incorporated into the clustering process. Besides, FCM uses simple distance measurements to calculate the membership degree, which causes an unsatisfactory result. So, a similarity measurement method is designed in the IFCM-MS to improve the membership calculation, in which gray information and distance information are fused adaptively. In addition, the complex structure of the brain results in MRIs with uncertainty boundary tissues. To overcome this problem, an intuitive fuzzy attribute is embedded into the IFCM-MS. Experiments performed on real brain tumor images demonstrate that our IFCM-MS has low noise sensitivity and high segmentation accuracy. MDPI 2021-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7864181/ /pubmed/33498422 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21030696 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_full Intuitionistic Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm Based on Membership Information Transfer-Ring and Similarity Measurement
title_fullStr Intuitionistic Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm Based on Membership Information Transfer-Ring and Similarity Measurement
title_full_unstemmed Intuitionistic Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm Based on Membership Information Transfer-Ring and Similarity Measurement
title_short Intuitionistic Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm Based on Membership Information Transfer-Ring and Similarity Measurement
title_sort intuitionistic fuzzy c-means algorithm based on membership information transfer-ring and similarity measurement
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7864181/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33498422
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21030696
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