Center-free intuitionistic fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm based on similarity of hybrid spatial membership for image segmentation

In order to address the issue that the center-free fuzzy c-means (CFFCM) clustering algorithm does not consider the texture features and spatial information of pixels, and the time complexity is too high, a center-free intuitionistic fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm based on similarity of hybrid spatial membership for image segmentation is proposed. In the proposed algorithm, the voting model is used to generate intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFS), and the generated hesitation degree and membership degree are combined with spatial information to design a spatial intuitionistic membership degree similarity model. This model can deal with the similarity between pixels and classes in gray information, so the segmentation efficiency is improved. At the same time, the intuitionistic fuzzy local binary pattern (IFLBP) operator is used to extract the image texture information and introduce it into the objective function. Spatial membership similarity model is used to process texture information and improve the segmentation accuracy of the algorithm. The results of simulation experiment show that the proposed has advantages in both visual effect and evaluation index.