@CONFERENCE\{IMM2007-04970, author = "M. S. Hansen and K. Sj{\"{o}}strand and H. Olafsd\'{o}ttir and H. B. W. Larsson and M. B. Stegmann and R. Larsen", title = "Robust Pseudo-Hierarchical Support Vector Clustering", year = "2007", keywords = "Hierarchical support vector clustering", booktitle = "Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis 2007", volume = "", series = "LNCS", editor = "Bjarne Kj{\ae}r Ersb{\o}ll, Ingela Nystr{\"{o}}m, Ivar Austvoll, Janne Heikkil{\"{a}},", publisher = "Springer", organization = "", address = "", url = "http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/pubs/4970-full.html", abstract = "Support vector clustering (SVC) has proven an efficient algorithm for clustering of noisy and high-dimensional data sets, with applications within many fields of research. An inherent problem, however, has been setting the parameters of the {SVC} algorithm. Using the recent emergence of a method for calculating the entire regularization path of the support vector domain description, we propose a fast method for robust pseudo-hierarchical support vector clustering (HSVC). The method is demonstrated to work well on generated data, as well as for detecting ischemic segments from multidimensional myocardial perfusion magnetic resonance imaging data, giving robust results while drastically reducing the need for parameter estimation." }