A review of clustering techniques and developments

Amit Saxena, Mukesh Prasad, Akshansh Gupta, Neha Bharill, Om Prakash Patel, Aruna Tiwari, Meng Joo Er, Weiping Ding, Chin-Teng Lin
2017 Neurocomputing  
This paper presents a comprehensive study on clustering: exiting methods and developments made at various times. Clustering is defined as an unsupervised learning where the objects are grouped on the basis of some similarity inherent among them. There are different methods for clustering the objects such as hierarchical, partitional, grid, density based and model based. The approaches used in these methods are discussed with their respective states of art and applicability. The measures of
more » ... arity as well as the evaluation criteria, which are the central components of clustering are also presented in the paper. The applications of clustering in some fields like image segmentation, object and character recognition and data mining are highlighted.
doi:10.1016/j.neucom.2017.06.053 fatcat:z2yzjsdwgnbzbam5bg3s4lu6ny