Clustering performance analysis of FCM algorithm on iterative relaxed median filtered medical images

Abstract

Noise removal is a major concern in image processing particularly in medical imaging. In this paper, a novel noise removal technique called Iterative relaxed median filter (IRMF) has been proposed and the effect of noise removal, by means of median filtering, on Fuzzy C-Means Clustering (FCM) has been analysed. Noise removal is carried out by various median filtering methods such as standard median filter (SMF), adaptive median filter (AMF), hybrid median filter (HMF) & relaxed median filter (RMF) and the performance of these methods is compared with the proposed method.