Clustering through SOM consistency

  • Authors:
  • Nicolau Gonçalves;Ricardo Vigário

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information and Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science, Aalto, Finland;Department of Information and Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science, Aalto, Finland

  • Venue:
  • ICIAR'12 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Image Analysis and Recognition - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Clustering is a classical tool in image analysis, with wide applications. Yet, most of its algorithmic solutions include a considerable amount of stochasticity, e.g. due to different initialisations. Here, we introduce a clustering method rooted on self organizing maps, that exploits the maps' intrinsic variability, to produce reliable clustering. Although only a subset of the data is consistently clustered, we show that this set is trustworthy, and can be used for posterior classification.