Median fuzzy c-means for clustering dissimilarity data

  • Authors:
  • Tina Geweniger;Dietlind Zülke;Barabara Hammer;Thomas Villmann

  • Affiliations:
  • Medical Department, Universität Leipzig, Germany;Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology - Life Science Informatics, Germany;Institute of Computer Science, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany;Department of Mathematics, University of Applied Sciences Mittweida, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Neurocomputing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Median clustering is a powerful methodology for prototype based clustering of similarity/dissimilarity data. In this contribution we combine the median c-means algorithm with the fuzzy c-means approach, which is only applicable for vectorial (metric) data in its original variant. For the resulted median fuzzy c-means approach we prove convergence and investigate the behavior of the algorithm in several experiments including real world data from psychotherapy research.