• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.1872-1879
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• 2016

The techniques to recycle and reuse plastics attract public attention. These public attraction and needs result in improving the recycling technique. However, the identification technique for black plastic wastes still have big problem that the spectrum extracted from near infrared radiation spectroscopy is not clear and is contaminated by noise. To overcome this problem, we apply Raman spectroscopy to extract a clear spectrum of plastic material. In addition, to improve the classification ability of fuzzy Radial Basis Function Neural Networks, we apply supervised learning based clustering method instead of unsupervised clustering method. The conditional fuzzy C-Means clustering method, which is a kind of supervised learning based clustering algorithms, is used to determine the location of radial basis functions. The conditional fuzzy C-Means clustering analyzes the data distribution over input space under the supervision of auxiliary information. The auxiliary information is defined by using k Nearest Neighbor approach.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.89-93
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• 2010

In this paper a new fuzzy clustering approach to the color clustering problem has been proposed. To deal with the limitations of the traditional FCM algorithm, we propose a spatial homogeneity-based FCM algorithm. Moreover, the cluster validity index is employed to automatically determine the number of clusters for a given image. We refer to this method as VS-FCM algorithm. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated through various clustering examples.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.93-100
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• 1997

칼라 영상 분할의 한 방법으로 fuzzy C-means를 이용한 방법이 많이 연구되었으나, 이 방법은 클러스터의 개수가 정해져야 사용할 수 있는 방법이다. 분할해야 할 데이터가 많은 경우 예비 분할을 수행하여 예비 분할 되지 않는 데이터들에 대해서 상세 분할을 fuzzy C-means를 사용하여 분할 하나 예비 분할된 데이터의 클러스터 중심과 상세 분할로 만들어진 클러스터의 중심과는 연계성이 없어진다. 본 연구에서는 이것을 보완하기 위하여 차감 클러스터링을 사용하여 칼라 영상의 클러스터의 개수와 중심을 구한 후, 이것을 이용하여 영상을 예비 분할하고 중력을 가진 fuzzy C-means를 사용하여 분할되지 않은 나머지 부분과 클러스터의 중심을 최적화 시켜 분할하는 알고리듬을 제안한다. 제안된 방법의 정성적인 평가를 수행하여 본 논문에서 제시된 방법이 우수함을 보인다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.516-524
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 K-means 또는 Fuzzy-c-means 알고리즘에서 클러스터의 중심점을 찾는 과정 중 임의로 선택되는 초기값 선정의 문제를 해결하고, 기존의 단점을 보완하는 새로운 방안으로서 데이터의 분포의 통계적 특성에 따른 초기값 선정 방법을 제안하였다. 기존의 초기값 선정 방법은 초기값에 따라 클러스터링이 매우 민감한 변화를 가져와, 최종적으로 종종 원치 않는 방향으로 가는 문제점을 갖고 있다. 이러한 초기값 선정의 문제가 인지되어 왔지만, 그 문제의 해결방안이 실제적으로 모색된 경우는 없었다. 본 논문에서는 데이타의 통계적 특성을 이용한 초기값 선정 방법을 적용하여, 클러스터링이 형성되는 시간의 단축 및 원치 않는 결과가 생성되는 경우를 약화시켜 시스템의 향상을 가져왔고, 이러한 제안된 알고리즘의 우수성을 기존의 알고리즘과 비교를 통하여 나타내었다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권6호
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• pp.1223-1229
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• 2009

The performance of Radial Basis Function Neural Networks depends on setting up the Radial Basis Functions over the input space which are the important design procedure of Radial Basis Function Neural Networks. The existing method to initialize the location of the radial basis functions over the input space is to use the conditional fuzzy C-means clustering. However, the researchers which are interested in the conditional fuzzy C-means clustering cannot get as good modeling performance as they expect because the conditional fuzzy C-means clustering cannot project the information which is extracted over the output space into the input space. To compensate the above mentioned drawback of the conditional fuzzy C-means clustering, we apply a fuzzy K-nearest neighbors approach to project the auxiliary information defined over the output space into the input space without lose of the information.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.11-18
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• 2010

Fuzzy c-means(FCM)는 퍼지 집합을 응용한 간단하지만 효율적인 클러스터링 방법 중 하나이다. FCM은 여러 응용 분야에서 성공적으로 활용되어 왔지만, 초기화와 잡음에 민감하고 볼록한 형태의 클러스터들만 다룰 수 있는 문제점이 있다. 이 논문에서는 이러한 FCM의 문제점을 해결하기 위해 전역 클러스터링(global clustering) 기법과 커널 클러스터링(kernel clustering) 기법을 결합하여 새로운 비선형 클러스터링 기법인 커널 전역 FCM(kernel global fuzzy c-means, KG-FCM)을 제안한다. 전역 클러스터링은 클러스터링의 초기화를 위한 방법 중 하나로, 순차적으로 클러스터를 하나씩 추가함으로써 초기화에 민감한 FCM의 한계를 극복할 수 있도록 해준다. FCM의 잡음 민감성과 볼록한 클러스터들만 다룰 수 있는 한계를 극복하기 위한 방법은 여러 가지가 있으며 커널 클러스터링이 그 중 하나이다. 커널 클러스터링은 사용하는 커널을 바꿈으로써 쉽게 확장이 가능하므로 이 논문에서는 커널 클러스터링을 사용하였다. 두 방법을 결합함으로써 제안한 방법은 위에서 언급한 문제점들을 해결할 수 있으며, 이는 가상 및 실제 데이터를 이용한 실험 결과를 통해 확인할 수 있다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.49-52
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• 2017

Ganglion cysts are benign soft tissues usually encountered in the wrist. In this paper, we propose a method to extract a ganglion cyst region from ultrasonography images by using image segmentation. The proposed method using the possibilistic c-means (PCM) clustering method is applicable to ganglion cyst extraction. The methods considered in this thesis are fuzzy stretching, median filter, PCM clustering, and connected component labeling. Fuzzy stretching performs well on ultrasonography images and improves the original image. Median filter reduces the speckle noise without decreasing the image sharpness. PCM clustering is used for categorizing pixels into the given cluster centers. Connected component labeling is used for labeling the objects in an image and extracting the cyst region. Further, PCM clustering is more robust in the case of noisy data, and the proposed method can extract a ganglion cyst area with an accuracy of 80% (16 out of 20 images).

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.258-263
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• 2018

Color Doppler sonography is a useful tool for examining blood flow and related indices. However, it should be done by well-trained operator, that is, operator subjectivity exists. In this paper, we propose an automatic blood flow area extraction method from brachial artery that would be an essential building block of computer aided color Doppler analyzer. Specifically, our concern is to examine hypertension suspicious (prehypertension) patients who might develop their symptoms to established hypertension in the future. The proposed method uses fuzzy C-means clustering as quantization engine with careful seeding of the number of clusters from histogram analysis. The experiment verifies that the proposed method is feasible in that the successful extraction rates are 96% (successful in 48 out of 50 test cases) and demonstrated better performance than K-means based method in specificity and sensitivity analysis but the proposed method should be further refined as the retrospective analysis pointed out.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2004년도 ICEIC The International Conference on Electronics Informations and Communications
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• pp.447-450
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• 2004

This paper proposes remotely sensed image classification method by fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm using average intra-cluster distance. The average intra-cluster distance acquires an average of the vector set belong to each cluster and proportionates to its size and density. We perform classification according to pixel's membership grade by cluster center of fuzzy c-means clustering using the mean-values of training data about each class. Fuzzy c-means algorithm considered membership degree for inter-cluster of each class. And then, we validate degree of overlap between clusters. A pixel which has a high degree of overlap applies to the maximum likelihood classification method. Finally, we decide category by comparing with fuzzy membership degree and likelihood rate. The proposed method is applied to IKONOS remote sensing satellite image for the verifying test.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제65권9호
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• pp.1541-1550
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• 2016

In this paper, we introduce a novel learning methodology of fuzzy clustering-based neural network pattern classifier. Fuzzy clustering-based neural network pattern classifier depicts the patterns of given classes using fuzzy rules and categorizes the patterns on unseen data through fuzzy rules. Least squares estimator(LSE) or weighted least squares estimator(WLSE) is typically used in order to estimate the coefficients of polynomial function, but this study proposes a novel coefficient estimate method which includes advantages of the existing methods. The premise part of fuzzy rule depicts input space as "If" clause of fuzzy rule through fuzzy c-means(FCM) clustering, while the consequent part of fuzzy rule denotes output space through polynomial function such as linear, quadratic and their coefficients are estimated by the proposed local least squares estimator(LLSE)-based learning. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed pattern classifier, the variety of machine learning data sets are exploited in experiments and through the comparative analysis of performance, it provides that the proposed LLSE-based learning method is preferable when compared with the other learning methods conventionally used in previous literature.