background: liver cirrhosis was one of the most important liver diseases. other chronic liver diseases could be lead to liver cirrhosis. liver cirrhosis could be lead one kind of liver cancers named hepatocellular carcinoma. cirrhosis in the early stages just by laboratory and imaging testes could be diagnosed. in this study cirrhotic patients were classified based on laboratory symptoms. for t...

this paper presents an efficient hybrid method, namely fuzzy particleswarm optimization (fpso) and fuzzy c-means (fcm) algorithms, to solve the fuzzyclustering problem, especially for large sizes. when the problem becomes large, thefcm algorithm may result in uneven distribution of data, making it difficult to findan optimal solution in reasonable amount of time. the pso algorithm does find ago...

In this study, the general ideas surrounding the k-medians problem are discussed. This involves a look into what k-medians attempts to solve and how it goes about doing so. We take a look at why k-medians is used as opposed to its k-means counterpart, specifically how its robustness enables it to be far more resistant to outliers. We then discuss the areas of study that are prevalent in the rea...

In recent years, spectral clustering has become one of the most popular modern clustering algorithms. It is simple to implement, can be solved efficiently by standard linear algebra software, and very often outperforms traditional clustering algorithms such as the k-means algorithm. On the first glance spectral clustering appears slightly mysterious, and it is not obvious to see why it works at...

Semi-supervised clustering uses a small amount of supervised information to aid unsupervised learning. As one of the semi-supervised clustering methods, metric learning has been widely used to clustering the centralized data points. However, there are many distributed data points, which cannot be centralized for the various reasons. Based on MPCK-MEANS framework [1] , the method of distributed ...

Approximate matrix factorization techniques with both nonnegativity and orthogonality constraints, referred to as orthogonal nonnegative matrix factorization (ONMF), have been recently introduced and shown to work remarkably well for clustering tasks such as document classification. In this paper, we introduce two new methods to solve ONMF. First, we show mathematical equivalence between ONMF a...

Abstract The performance of image segmentation highly relies on the original inputting image. When the image is contaminated by some noises or blurs, we can not obtain the efficient segmentation result by using direct segmentation methods. In order to efficiently segment the contaminated image, this paper proposes a two step method based on the hybrid total variation model with a box constraint...

Floating point division, even though being an infrequent operation in the traditional sense, is indispensable when it comes to a range of non-traditional applications such as K-Means Clustering and QR Decomposition just to name a few. In such applications, hardware support for floating point division would boost the performance of the entire system. In this paper, we present a novel architectur...

Support Vector Domain Description (SVDD) is an effective method for describing a set of objects. As a basic tool, several application-oriented extensions have been developed, such as support vector clustering (SVC), SVDD-based k-Means (SVDDk-Means) and support vector based algorithm for clustering data streams (SVStream). Despite its significant success, one inherent drawback is that the descri...