A Fuzzy C-Means Clustering Algorithm for Real Medical Image Segmentation

Feifei Zhang, Fei Shi, Dayong Ren, Yue Li

Abstract: In the field of medical image processing, the presence of noise can often result in the obfuscation of crucial details, which in turn can have a detrimental impact on the accuracy of clinical diagnoses. In order to effectively remove noise and improve segmentation performance, this paper proposes a refined Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) algorithm, designated as MKL-FCM. The method commences with Poisson denoising, which enables more effective handling of the noise characteristics inherent to medical images. Subsequently, multi-scale Kullback-Leibler divergence is utilised to analyse local image information across varying scales, facilitating the differentiation between tissues and pathological regions. Furthermore, tight wavelet frames are capable of capturing fine image details, while reverse optimisation of the objective function serves to correct errors in feature reconstruction, thereby enhancing the accuracy of the segmentation process. The experimental results demonstrate that MKL-FCM enhances both image clarity and segmentation accuracy, and outperforms existing methods in terms of efficiency.

External IDs:dblp:conf/icassp/ZhangSRL25