ITK  4.6.0
Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit
Statistics/KdTreeBasedKMeansClustering.cxx
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// \index{Statistics!k-means clustering (using k-d tree)}
//
// \index{itk::Statistics::KdTree\-Based\-Kmeans\-Estimator}
//
// K-means clustering is a popular clustering algorithm because it is simple
// and usually converges to a reasonable solution. The k-means algorithm
// works as follows:
//
// \begin{enumerate}
// \item{Obtains the initial k means input from the user.}
// \item{Assigns each measurement vector in a sample container to its
// closest mean among the k number of means (i.e., update the membership of
// each measurement vectors to the nearest of the k clusters).}
// \item{Calculates each cluster's mean from the newly assigned
// measurement vectors (updates the centroid (mean) of k clusters).}
// \item{Repeats step 2 and step 3 until it meets the termination
// criteria.}
// \end{enumerate}
//
// The most common termination criteria is that if there is no
// measurement vector that changes its cluster membership from the
// previous iteration, then the algorithm stops.
//
// The \subdoxygen{Statistics}{KdTreeBasedKmeansEstimator} is a variation of
// this logic. The k-means clustering algorithm is computationally very
// expensive because it has to recalculate the mean at each iteration. To
// update the mean values, we have to calculate the distance between k means
// and each and every measurement vector. To reduce the computational burden,
// the KdTreeBasedKmeansEstimator uses a special data structure: the
// k-d tree (\subdoxygen{Statistics}{KdTree}) with additional
// information. The additional information includes the number and the vector
// sum of measurement vectors under each node under the tree architecture.
//
// With such additional information and the k-d tree data structure,
// we can reduce the computational cost of the distance calculation
// and means. Instead of calculating each measurement vectors and k
// means, we can simply compare each node of the k-d tree and the k
// means. This idea of utilizing a k-d tree can be found in multiple
// articles \cite{Alsabti1998} \cite{Pelleg1999}
// \cite{Kanungo2000}. Our implementation of this scheme follows the
// article by the Kanungo et al \cite{Kanungo2000}.
//
// We use the \subdoxygen{Statistics}{ListSample} as the input sample, the
// \doxygen{Vector} as the measurement vector. The following code
// snippet includes their header files.
//
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#include "itkVector.h"
#include "itkListSample.h"
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//
// Since our k-means algorithm requires a \subdoxygen{Statistics}{KdTree}
// object as an input, we include the KdTree class header file. As mentioned
// above, we need a k-d tree with the vector sum and the number of
// measurement vectors. Therefore we use the
// \subdoxygen{Statistics}{WeightedCentroidKdTreeGenerator} instead of the
// \subdoxygen{Statistics}{KdTreeGenerator} that generate a k-d tree without
// such additional information.
//
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#include "itkKdTree.h"
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//
// The KdTreeBasedKmeansEstimator class is the implementation of the
// k-means algorithm. It does not create k clusters. Instead, it
// returns the mean estimates for the k clusters.
//
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//
// To generate the clusters, we must create k instances of
// \subdoxygen{Statistics}{DistanceToCentroidMembershipFunction} function as the membership
// functions for each cluster and plug that---along with a sample---into an
// \subdoxygen{Statistics}{SampleClassifierFilter} object to get a
// \subdoxygen{Statistics}{MembershipSample} that stores pairs of measurement
// vectors and their associated class labels (k labels).
//
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//
// We will fill the sample with random variables from two normal
// distribution using the \subdoxygen{Statistics}{NormalVariateGenerator}.
//
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int main()
{
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//
// Since the \code{NormalVariateGenerator} class only supports 1-D, we
// define our measurement vector type as one component vector. We
// then, create a \code{ListSample} object for data inputs. Each
// measurement vector is of length 1. We set this using the
// \code{SetMeasurementVectorSize()} method.
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typedef itk::Vector< double, 1 > MeasurementVectorType;
SampleType::Pointer sample = SampleType::New();
sample->SetMeasurementVectorSize( 1 );
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//
// The following code snippet creates a NormalVariateGenerator
// object. Since the random variable generator returns values
// according to the standard normal distribution (The mean is zero,
// and the standard deviation is one), before pushing random values
// into the \code{sample}, we change the mean and standard
// deviation. We want two normal (Gaussian) distribution data. We have
// two for loops. Each for loop uses different mean and standard
// deviation. Before we fill the \code{sample} with the second
// distribution data, we call \code{Initialize(random seed)} method,
// to recreate the pool of random variables in the
// \code{normalGenerator}.
//
// To see the probability density plots from the two distribution,
// refer to the Figure~\ref{fig:TwoNormalDensityFunctionPlot}.
//
// \begin{figure}
// \center
// \includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{TwoNormalDensityFunctionPlot}
// \itkcaption[Two normal distributions plot]{Two normal distributions' probability density plot
// (The means are 100 and 200, and the standard deviation is 30 )}
// \protect\label{fig:TwoNormalDensityFunctionPlot}
// \end{figure}
//
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typedef itk::Statistics::NormalVariateGenerator NormalGeneratorType;
NormalGeneratorType::Pointer normalGenerator = NormalGeneratorType::New();
normalGenerator->Initialize( 101 );
MeasurementVectorType mv;
double mean = 100;
double standardDeviation = 30;
for ( unsigned int i = 0; i < 100; ++i )
{
mv[0] = ( normalGenerator->GetVariate() * standardDeviation ) + mean;
sample->PushBack( mv );
}
normalGenerator->Initialize( 3024 );
mean = 200;
standardDeviation = 30;
for ( unsigned int i = 0; i < 100; ++i )
{
mv[0] = ( normalGenerator->GetVariate() * standardDeviation ) + mean;
sample->PushBack( mv );
}
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//
// We create a k-d tree. To see the details on the k-d tree generation, see
// the Section~\ref{sec:KdTree}.
//
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TreeGeneratorType;
TreeGeneratorType::Pointer treeGenerator = TreeGeneratorType::New();
treeGenerator->SetSample( sample );
treeGenerator->SetBucketSize( 16 );
treeGenerator->Update();
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//
// Once we have the k-d tree, it is a simple procedure to produce k
// mean estimates.
//
// We create the KdTreeBasedKmeansEstimator. Then, we provide the initial
// mean values using the \code{SetParameters()}. Since we are dealing with
// two normal distribution in a 1-D space, the size of the mean value array
// is two. The first element is the first mean value, and the second is the
// second mean value. If we used two normal distributions in a 2-D space,
// the size of array would be four, and the first two elements would be the
// two components of the first normal distribution's mean vector. We
// plug-in the k-d tree using the \code{SetKdTree()}.
//
// The remaining two methods specify the termination condition. The
// estimation process stops when the number of iterations reaches the
// maximum iteration value set by the \code{SetMaximumIteration()}, or the
// distances between the newly calculated mean (centroid) values and
// previous ones are within the threshold set by the
// \code{SetCentroidPositionChangesThreshold()}. The final step is
// to call the \code{StartOptimization()} method.
//
// The for loop will print out the mean estimates from the estimation
// process.
//
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typedef TreeGeneratorType::KdTreeType TreeType;
EstimatorType;
EstimatorType::Pointer estimator = EstimatorType::New();
EstimatorType::ParametersType initialMeans(2);
initialMeans[0] = 0.0;
initialMeans[1] = 0.0;
estimator->SetParameters( initialMeans );
estimator->SetKdTree( treeGenerator->GetOutput() );
estimator->SetMaximumIteration( 200 );
estimator->SetCentroidPositionChangesThreshold(0.0);
estimator->StartOptimization();
EstimatorType::ParametersType estimatedMeans = estimator->GetParameters();
for ( unsigned int i = 0; i < 2; ++i )
{
std::cout << "cluster[" << i << "] " << std::endl;
std::cout << " estimated mean : " << estimatedMeans[i] << std::endl;
}
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//
// If we are only interested in finding the mean estimates, we might
// stop. However, to illustrate how a classifier can be formed using
// the statistical classification framework. We go a little bit
// further in this example.
//
// Since the k-means algorithm is an minimum distance classifier using
// the estimated k means and the measurement vectors. We use the
// DistanceToCentroidMembershipFunction class as membership functions.
// Our choice for the decision rule is the
// \subdoxygen{Statistics}{MinimumDecisionRule} that returns the
// index of the membership functions that have the smallest value for
// a measurement vector.
//
// After creating a SampleClassifier filter object and a
// MinimumDecisionRule object, we plug-in the \code{decisionRule} and
// the \code{sample} to the classifier filter. Then, we must specify
// the number of classes that will be considered using the
// \code{SetNumberOfClasses()} method.
//
// The remainder of the following code snippet shows how to use
// user-specified class labels. The classification result will be stored
// in a MembershipSample object, and for each measurement vector, its
// class label will be one of the two class labels, 100 and 200
// (\code{unsigned int}).
//
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MeasurementVectorType > MembershipFunctionType;
typedef itk::Statistics::MinimumDecisionRule DecisionRuleType;
DecisionRuleType::Pointer decisionRule = DecisionRuleType::New();
ClassifierType::Pointer classifier = ClassifierType::New();
classifier->SetDecisionRule( decisionRule );
classifier->SetInput( sample );
classifier->SetNumberOfClasses( 2 );
typedef ClassifierType::ClassLabelVectorObjectType
ClassLabelVectorObjectType;
typedef ClassifierType::ClassLabelVectorType ClassLabelVectorType;
typedef ClassifierType::ClassLabelType ClassLabelType;
ClassLabelVectorObjectType::Pointer classLabelsObject =
ClassLabelVectorObjectType::New();
ClassLabelVectorType& classLabelsVector = classLabelsObject->Get();
ClassLabelType class1 = 200;
classLabelsVector.push_back( class1 );
ClassLabelType class2 = 100;
classLabelsVector.push_back( class2 );
classifier->SetClassLabels( classLabelsObject );
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//
// The \code{classifier} is almost ready to do the classification
// process except that it needs two membership functions that
// represents two clusters respectively.
//
// In this example, the two clusters are modeled by two Euclidean distance
// functions. The distance function (model) has only one parameter, its mean
// (centroid) set by the \code{SetCentroid()} method. To plug-in two distance
// functions, we create a MembershipFunctionVectorObject that contains a
// MembershipFunctionVector with two components and add it using the
// \code{SetMembershipFunctions} method. Then invocation of the
// \code{Update()} method will perform the classification.
//
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typedef ClassifierType::MembershipFunctionVectorObjectType
MembershipFunctionVectorObjectType;
typedef ClassifierType::MembershipFunctionVectorType
MembershipFunctionVectorType;
MembershipFunctionVectorObjectType::Pointer membershipFunctionVectorObject =
MembershipFunctionVectorObjectType::New();
MembershipFunctionVectorType& membershipFunctionVector =
membershipFunctionVectorObject->Get();
int index = 0;
for ( unsigned int i = 0; i < 2; i++ )
{
MembershipFunctionType::Pointer membershipFunction
= MembershipFunctionType::New();
MembershipFunctionType::CentroidType centroid(
sample->GetMeasurementVectorSize() );
for ( unsigned int j = 0; j < sample->GetMeasurementVectorSize(); j++ )
{
centroid[j] = estimatedMeans[index++];
}
membershipFunction->SetCentroid( centroid );
membershipFunctionVector.push_back( membershipFunction.GetPointer() );
}
classifier->SetMembershipFunctions( membershipFunctionVectorObject );
classifier->Update();
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//
// The following code snippet prints out the measurement vectors and
// their class labels in the \code{sample}.
//
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const ClassifierType::MembershipSampleType* membershipSample =
classifier->GetOutput();
ClassifierType::MembershipSampleType::ConstIterator iter
= membershipSample->Begin();
while ( iter != membershipSample->End() )
{
std::cout << "measurement vector = " << iter.GetMeasurementVector()
<< " class label = " << iter.GetClassLabel()
<< std::endl;
++iter;
}
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return 0;
}