I'm looking for pointers to existing algorithms that take a number of position ellipses (centre, axis orientation, majr/minor axes) and cluster them together based on proximity to each other. The traditional way of clustering doesn't tend to use spatial size to inform the clusters.
An alternative way of thinking about it would be to assign a confidence value to the centre coordinates based on the size of the ellipse and use this to inform the cluster assignment.
If anyone can point me in the direction of doing this I would be grateful. I have searched and not found anything directly applicable.