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GEOFCM: a new method for statistical classification of geochemical data using spatial contextual information
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- YOSHIDA Kenta
- Japan Agency for Marine–Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
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- KUWATANI Tatsu
- Japan Agency for Marine–Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
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- YASUMOTO Atsushi
- Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Kyoto University
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- HARAGUCHI Satoru
- Japan Agency for Marine–Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
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- UEKI Kenta
- Japan Agency for Marine–Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
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- IWAMORI Hikaru
- Japan Agency for Marine–Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology
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Description
<p>Conventional clustering algorithms such as k–means and fuzzy c–means (FCM) cluster analysis do not fully utilize the spatial distribution information of geologic samples. In this paper, we propose GEOFCM, a new clustering method for geochemical datasets with location coordinates. A spatial FCM algorithm originally constructed for image segmentation was modified for application to a sparse and unequally–spaced dataset. The proposed algorithm evaluates the membership function of each sample using neighboring samples as a weighting function. To test the proposed algorithm, a synthetic dataset was analyzed by several hyper–parameter settings. Applying this algorithm to a geochemical dataset of granitoids in the Ina–Mikawa district of the Ryoke belt shows that samples collected from the same geological unit are likely to be classified as the same cluster. Moreover, overlapping geochemical trends are classified consistently with spatial distribution, and the result is more robust against noise addition than standard FCM analysis. The proposed method is a powerful tool to use with geological datasets with location coordinates, which are becoming increasingly available, and can help find overviews of complicated multidimensional data structure.</p>
Journal
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- Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences
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Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences 113 (3), 159-169, 2018
Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390845712973480704
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- NII Article ID
- 130007403328
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- ISSN
- 13493825
- 13456296
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- Text Lang
- en
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- Article Type
- journal article
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
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- OpenAIRE
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- Abstract License Flag
- Disallowed