Two-phase clustering process for outliers detection

[[abstract]]In this paper, a two-phase clustering algorithm for outliers detection is proposed. We first modify the traditional k-means algorithm in Phase 1 by using a heuristic ?if one new input pattern is far enough away from all clusters' centers, then assign it as a new cluster center?. It results that the data points in the same cluster may be most likely all outliers or all non-outliers. And then we construct a minimum spanning tree (MST) in Phase 2 and remove the longest edge. The small clusters, the tree with less number of nodes, are selected and regarded as outlier. The experimental results show that our process works well