TY - GEN
T1 - Using spatial characteristics to aid automation of SOM segmentation of functional image data
AU - Grossman, Robert
AU - Merényi, Erzsébet
AU - O’Driscoll, Patrick
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/8/29
Y1 - 2017/8/29
N2 - We propose a new similarity measure, Combined Connectivity and Spatial Adjacency (CCSA), to be used in hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) for automated segmentation of Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs, Kohonen [1]). The CCSA measure is specifically designed to assist segmentation of large, complex, functional image data by exploiting general spatial characteristics of such data. The proposed CCSA measure is constructed from two strong indicators of cluster structure: the degree of localization of data points in physical space and the degree of connectivity of SOM prototypes (as defined by Tasdemir and Merényi [2]). The new measure is expected to enhance cluster capture in large functional image data cubes such as hyperspectral imagery or fMRI brain images, where many relevant clusters exist with widely varying statistical properties and in complex relationships both in feature space and in physical (image) space. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach using the CCSA measure on progressively complex synthetic spatial data and on real fMRI brain data.
AB - We propose a new similarity measure, Combined Connectivity and Spatial Adjacency (CCSA), to be used in hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) for automated segmentation of Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs, Kohonen [1]). The CCSA measure is specifically designed to assist segmentation of large, complex, functional image data by exploiting general spatial characteristics of such data. The proposed CCSA measure is constructed from two strong indicators of cluster structure: the degree of localization of data points in physical space and the degree of connectivity of SOM prototypes (as defined by Tasdemir and Merényi [2]). The new measure is expected to enhance cluster capture in large functional image data cubes such as hyperspectral imagery or fMRI brain images, where many relevant clusters exist with widely varying statistical properties and in complex relationships both in feature space and in physical (image) space. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach using the CCSA measure on progressively complex synthetic spatial data and on real fMRI brain data.
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U2 - 10.1109/WSOM.2017.8020012
DO - 10.1109/WSOM.2017.8020012
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85031304219
T3 - 12th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps and Learning Vector Quantization, Clustering and Data Visualization, WSOM 2017 - Proceedings
BT - 12th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps and Learning Vector Quantization, Clustering and Data Visualization, WSOM 2017 - Proceedings
A2 - Lamirel, Jean-Charles
A2 - Olteanu, Madalina
A2 - Cottrell, Marie
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 12th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps and Learning Vector Quantization, Clustering and Data Visualization, WSOM 2017
Y2 - 28 June 2017 through 30 June 2017
ER -