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C. Table, 1: Summary of main internal (unsupervised) evaluation criteria! Evaluation Criteria Remarks Sum of squared errors Measures within-class disparity

. Dunn-index, Measures with-in class and between class disparities, not effective in case of noisy images Rosenberger and Chehdi [10], [101] Measures with-in class and between class disparities, takes into account the region type