A Survey of Fuzzy Clustering Methods and Validation Approaches
摘要
This work presents a thorough and meticulous examination of fuzzy partition approaches, including a complete algorithmic description of the Fuzzy C-Means (FCM), Fuzzy J-Means (FJM), and Electrical Fuzzy C-Means (EFCM) clustering algorithms. It thoroughly examines these three algorithms on four datasets: iris, diabetes, heart disease, and breast cancer. The paper employs a wide range of fuzzy versions of validity measures and discusses internal and external fuzzy clustering validity measures to compare the performance of these algorithms. In conclusion, this paper offers well-founded suggestions on the performance of these three algorithms and discusses their effectiveness based on different numbers of clusters.