A comprehensive survey of clustering algorithms: State-of-the-art machine learning applications, taxonomy, challenges, and future research prospects

AE Ezugwu, AM Ikotun, OO Oyelade… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2022 - Elsevier
Clustering is an essential tool in data mining research and applications. It is the subject of
active research in many fields of study, such as computer science, data science, statistics …

A taxonomy of machine learning clustering algorithms, challenges, and future realms

S Pitafi, T Anwar, Z Sharif - Applied sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the field of data mining, clustering has shown to be an important technique. Numerous
clustering methods have been devised and put into practice, and most of them locate high …

Method for determining the optimal number of clusters based on agglomerative hierarchical clustering

S Zhou, Z Xu, F Liu - IEEE transactions on neural networks and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is crucial to determine the optimal number of clusters for the clustering quality in cluster
analysis. From the standpoint of sample geometry, two concepts, ie, the sample clustering …

Active vision and surface reconstruction for 3D plant shoot modelling

JA Gibbs, MP Pound, AP French… - … ACM transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Plant phenotyping is the quantitative description of a plant's physiological, biochemical, and
anatomical status which can be used in trait selection and helps to provide mechanisms to …

A comprehensive review of clustering techniques in artificial intelligence for knowledge discovery: Taxonomy, challenges, applications and future prospects

J Singh, D Singh - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2024 - Elsevier
Clustering is a set of essential mathematical techniques in artificial intelligence and machine
learning for analyzing massive amounts of data generated by applications. Clustering uses …

Analysing student performance using sparse data of core bachelor courses

M Saarela, T Kärkkäinen - Journal of educational data mining, 2015 - jyx.jyu.fi
Curricula for Computer Science (CS) degrees are characterized by the strong occupational
orientation of the discipline. In the BSc degree structure, with clearly separate CS core …

A fast hybrid clustering technique based on local nearest neighbor using minimum spanning tree

G Mishra, SK Mohanty - Expert Systems with Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
With rapid explosion of information, clustering emerged as an active research area for
knowledge discovery. Most of the existing clustering algorithms become ineffective when …

Fuzzy C-means clustering algorithms with weighted membership and distance

BA Pimentel, R de Amorim Silva… - International Journal of …, 2022 - World Scientific
Fuzzy C-means (FCM) clustering algorithm is an important and popular clustering algorithm
which is utilized in various application domains such as pattern recognition, machine …

Hierarchical division clustering framework for categorical data

W Wei, J Liang, X Guo, P Song, Y Sun - Neurocomputing, 2019 - Elsevier
Although many divisive hierarchical clustering methods for processing categorical data have
been presented in the literature, none have been systematically or comprehensively …

An effective partitional crisp clustering method using gradient descent approach

S Shalileh - Mathematics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Enhancing the effectiveness of clustering methods has always been of great interest.
Therefore, inspired by the success story of the gradient descent approach in supervised …