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Fuzzy clustering methods offer considerable benefits compared with the aforementioned methods as they are capable of handling brain images that are complex, largely uncertain, and imprecise. However, this approach suffers from the intrinsic noise and intensity inhomogeneity (IIH) in the data resulting from the acquisition process. To resolve these issues, we propose a fuzzy consensus clustering algorithm that defines a membership function resulting from a voting schema to cluster the pixels. In particular, we first pre-process the MRI data and employ several segmentation techniques based on traditional fuzzy sets and intuitionistic sets. Then, we adopted a voting schema to fuse the results of the applied clustering methods. Finally, to evaluate the proposed method, we used the well-known performance measures (boundary measure, overlap measure, and volume measure) on two publicly available datasets (OASIS and IBSR18). 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