Cluster merging based on weighted Mahalanobis distance with application in digital mammography
A new clustering algorithm that uses a weighted Mahalanobis distance as a distance metric to perform partitional clustering is proposed. The covariance matrices of the generated clusters are used to determine cluster similarity and closeness so that clusters which are similar in shape and close in M...
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| 语言: | English |
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IEEE
1998
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| 总结: | A new clustering algorithm that uses a weighted Mahalanobis distance as a distance metric to perform partitional clustering is proposed. The covariance matrices of the generated clusters are used to determine cluster similarity and closeness so that clusters which are similar in shape and close in Mahalanobis distance can be merged together serving the ultimate goal of automatically determining the optimal number of classes present in the data. Properties of the new algorithm are presented by examining the clustering quality for codebooks designed with the proposed method and another common method that uses Euclidean distance. The new algorithm provides better results than the competing method on a variety of data sets. Application of this algorithm to the problem of detecting suspicious regions in a mammogram is discussed. |
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