TY - JOUR AU - Rodríguez González, Juan Tinguaro AU - Gonzalez-Garcia, Xabier AU - Gómez González, Daniel AU - Bustince, Humberto PY - 2026 DO - 10.1016/j.patcog.2025.112909 SN - 0031-3203 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/132706 T2 - Pattern Recognition AB - Accurate number-of-clusters estimation (NCE) is a central task in many clustering applications, particularly for prototype-based 𝑘-centers methods like 𝑘-Means, which require the number of clusters 𝑘 to be specified in advance. This paper presents... LA - eng M2 - 112909 (15) PB - Elsevier KW - Cluster analysis KW - Number of clusters estimation KW - Cluster cohesion measures TI - CRB-NCE: An adaptable cohesion rule-based approach to number of clusters estimation TY - journal article VL - 173 ER -