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Fingerprint image segmentation using modified fuzzy c-means algorithm
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Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering·Volume 02 (2009)·Pages 656–660·Published 15 December 2009·DOI10.4236/jbise.2009.28096
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Abstract
Fingerprint segmentation is a crucial step in fingerprint recognition system, and determines the results of fingerprint analysis and recognition. This paper proposes an efficient approach for fingerprint segmentation based on modified fuzzy c-means (FCM). The proposed method is realized by modifying the objective function in the Szilagyi’s algorithm via introducing histogram-based weight. Experimental results show that the proposed approach has an efficient performance while segmenting both original fingerprint image and fingerprint images corrupted by different type of noises.
KeywordsFingerprintSegmentationFuzzy C-meansHistogramRobustness
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