Open AccessDynamic semi-supervised fuzzy clustering for dental X-ray image segmentation: an analysis on the additional function
Author(s) -
Trần Mạnh Tuấn,
Lê Hoàng Sơn,
Le Ba Dung
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of computer science and cybernetics (vietnam academy of science and technology)/journal of computer science and cybernetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2815-5939
pISSN - 1813-9663
DOI - 10.15625/1813-9663/31/4/7234
Subject(s) - cluster analysis , fuzzy clustering , artificial intelligence , image (mathematics) , computer science , image segmentation , segmentation , membership function , fuzzy logic , pattern recognition (psychology) , matrix (chemical analysis) , mathematics , fuzzy set , data mining , materials science , composite material
Dental X-ray image segmentation is a necessary and important process in medical diagnosis, which assists clinicians to make decisions about possible dental diseases of a patient from a dental X-ray image. It is a multi-objective optimization problem which involves basic components of fuzzy clustering, spatial structures of a dental image, and additional information of experts expressed through a pre-defined membership matrix. In our previous work, the authors presented a semi-supervised fuzzy clustering algorithm using interactive fuzzy satisficing named as SSFC-FS for this problem. An important issue of SSFC-FS is that the pre-defined membership matrix is a fixed function in the sense that it uses the same structure and parameters for all dental images. This is a shortcoming of SSFC-FS since each image has its own structure and morphology so that it needs different membership matrices. In this paper, the authors propose another new dynamic semi-supervised fuzzy clustering called SSFC-FSAI that extends SSFC-FS by employing a collection of pre-defined membership matrices for dental images. A procedure to choose a suitable pre-defined membership matrix for a given dental X-ray image is proposed and attached to SSFC-FSAI. Experimental results on a real dataset of 56 dental X-ray images from Hanoi University of Medical in 2014 - 2015 show that SSFC-FSAI has better accuracy than SSFC-FS and the relevant algorithms.