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In this study, we try to apply the semisupervised fuzzy clustering algorithm to lesion segmentation in mammography molybdenum target images and propose semisupervised fuzzy clustering based on the cluster centres of labelled samples (called SFCM_V, where V stands for cluster centre). The algorithm refers to the cluster centre of the labelled sample dataset during the clustering process and uses the information of the labelled samples to guide the unlabelled samples during clustering to improve the clustering performance. We compare the SFCM_V algorithm with the current popular semisupervised clustering algorithm and an unsupervised clustering algorithm and perform experiments on real patient mammogram images using DICE and IoU as evaluation metrics; SFCM_V has the highest evaluation metric coefficient. 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