Interval type-2 fuzzy c-means clustering using intuitionistic fuzzy sets

In this paper, intuitionistic interval type-2 fuzzy c-means clustering (InIT2FCM) method is proposed for the clustering problems. Intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFS) and intuitionistic type-2 fuzzy sets (InIT2FS) were introduced with the aim to better handle the uncertainty. Utilizing the advantages of the IFS and InT2FS, we have combined them with fuzzy clustering algorithms to overcome some drawbacks of the “conventional” FCM in handling uncertainty. The experiments were completed for different types of images which show the advantages of the proposed algorithms, especially with noisy images.