A Markov Random Field (MRF)-based technique is described for performing
clustering of images characterized by poor or limited data. The proposed
method is a statistical classification model that labels the image pixels
based on the description of their statistical and contextual information.
Apart from evaluating the pixel statistics that originate from the
definition of the K-means clustering scheme, the model expands the
analysis by the description of the spatial dependence between pixels and
their labels (context), hence leading to the reduction of the
inhomogeneity of the segmentation output with respect to the result of
pure K-means clustering.