Estimating the number of clusters in multivariate data by self-organizing maps

• Published in: International journal of neural systems Vol. 9; no. 3; p. 195
• Main Authors: Costa, J A, Netto, M L
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore 01.06.1999
• Subjects: Algorithms; Computer Simulation; Multivariate Analysis; Neural Networks (Computer); Science - methods

Determining the structure of data without prior knowledge of the number of clusters or any information about their composition is a problem of interest in many fields, such as image analysis, astrophysics, biology, etc. Partitioning a set of n patterns in a p-dimensional feature space must be done s...