เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	DBSCAN	การจัดกลุ่มแบบ K-means	DBSCAN แบบกึ่งมีผู้สอน
สาขาวิชา	การเรียนรู้ของเครื่อง	การเรียนรู้ของเครื่อง	การเรียนรู้ของเครื่อง
ตระกูล	Machine learning	Machine learning	Machine learning
ปีกำเนิด	1996	1967 (formalized 1982)	2000s
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Ester, M., Kriegel, H.-P., Sander, J. & Xu, X.	MacQueen, J. B.; Lloyd, S. P.	Ester, M. et al. (DBSCAN base); semi-supervised extensions by multiple authors (2000s–2010s)
ประเภท	Density-based clustering algorithm	Partitional clustering	Constrained density-based clustering
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Ester, M., Kriegel, H.-P., Sander, J. & Xu, X. (1996). A Density-Based Algorithm for Discovering Clusters in Large Spatial Databases with Noise. Proceedings of the 2nd KDD, 226–231.	Lloyd, S. P. (1982). Least squares quantization in PCM. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 28(2), 129–137.	Ester, M., Kriegel, H.-P., Sander, J., & Xu, X. (1996). A density-based algorithm for discovering clusters in large spatial databases with noise. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-96), pp. 226–231. AAAI Press.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	DBSCAN Kümeleme, density-based clustering, density-based spatial clustering	k-means clustering, Lloyd's algorithm, k-means partitioning, hard k-means	Constrained DBSCAN, SS-DBSCAN, DBSCAN with must-link/cannot-link constraints, seeded DBSCAN
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	3	4	5
สรุป	DBSCAN is a density-based clustering algorithm, introduced by Ester, Kriegel, Sander and Xu in 1996, that groups together points lying in dense regions and flags points in sparse regions as noise. It is effective on noisy data and on clusters of irregular, non-spherical shapes.	K-means is a classic unsupervised partitional clustering algorithm that divides a dataset into K non-overlapping groups by iteratively assigning each observation to its nearest centroid and updating centroids as the mean of their assigned points. It is one of the most widely used exploratory tools in machine learning and data analysis.	Semi-supervised DBSCAN extends the canonical density-based clustering algorithm (Ester et al., 1996) by incorporating a small set of pairwise or label constraints — must-link pairs that must share a cluster, cannot-link pairs that must be separated, or a handful of known labels — to guide cluster formation while retaining DBSCAN's ability to discover arbitrary-shaped clusters and flag noise points.