Clustering algorithms in biomedical research: a review

R Xu, DC Wunsch - IEEE reviews in biomedical engineering, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Applications of clustering algorithms in biomedical research are ubiquitous, with typical
examples including gene expression data analysis, genomic sequence analysis, biomedical …

A comprehensive survey of traditional, merge-split and evolutionary approaches proposed for determination of cluster number

E Hancer, D Karaboga - Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2017 - Elsevier
Today's data mostly does not include the knowledge of cluster number. Therefore, it is not
possible to use conventional clustering approaches to partition today's data, ie, it is …

A survey of evolutionary algorithms for clustering

ER Hruschka, RJGB Campello… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a survey of evolutionary algorithms designed for clustering tasks. It tries
to reflect the profile of this area by focusing more on those subjects that have been given …

Automatic clustering using nature-inspired metaheuristics: A survey

A José-García, W Gómez-Flores - Applied Soft Computing, 2016 - Elsevier
In cluster analysis, a fundamental problem is to determine the best estimate of the number of
clusters; this is known as the automatic clustering problem. Because of lack of prior domain …

[BOG][B] Unsupervised classification: similarity measures, classical and metaheuristic approaches, and applications

S Bandyopadhyay, S Saha - 2013 - Springer
Clustering is an important unsupervised classification technique where data points are
grouped such that points that are similar in some sense belong to the same cluster. Cluster …

A new grou** genetic algorithm for clustering problems

LE Agustı, S Salcedo-Sanz… - Expert Systems with …, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper we present a novel grou** genetic algorithm for clustering problems. Though
there have been different approaches that have analyzed the performance of several …

A point symmetry-based clustering technique for automatic evolution of clusters

S Bandyopadhyay, S Saha - IEEE Transactions on Knowledge …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a new symmetry based genetic clustering algorithm is proposed which
automatically evolves the number of clusters as well as the proper partitioning from a data …

A comparison study of validity indices on swarm-intelligence-based clustering

R Xu, J Xu, DC Wunsch - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Swarm intelligence has emerged as a worthwhile class of clustering methods due to its
convenient implementation, parallel capability, ability to avoid local minima, and other …

Evolving clusters in gene-expression data

ER Hruschka, RJGB Campello, LN De Castro - Information Sciences, 2006 - Elsevier
Clustering is a useful exploratory tool for gene-expression data. Although successful
applications of clustering techniques have been reported in the literature, there is no method …

Ant colony optimization based clustering methodology

T İnkaya, S Kayalıgil, NE Özdemirel - Applied Soft Computing, 2015 - Elsevier
In this work we consider spatial clustering problem with no a priori information. The number
of clusters is unknown, and clusters may have arbitrary shapes and density differences. The …