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On the geometrical properties of the coherent matching distance in 2D persistent homology
In this paper we study a new metric for comparing Betti numbers functions in
bidimensional persistent homology, based on coherent matchings, i.e. families
of matchings that vary in a continuous way. We prove some new results about
this metric, including its stability. In particular, we show that the
computation of this distance is strongly related to suitable filtering
functions associated with lines of slope 1, so underlining the key role of
these lines in the study of bidimensional persistence. In order to prove these
results, we introduce and study the concepts of extended Pareto grid for a
normal filtering function as well as of transport of a matching. As a
by-product, we obtain a theoretical framework for managing the phenomenon of
monodromy in 2D persistent homology.Comment: 39 pages, 15 figures. Corrected the definition of multiplicity of
points in the extended Pareto grid and the definition of normal function.
Removed Rem. 3.3. Added Ex. 3.9, Fig. 11, Fig. 12, Rem. 5.3 and Fig. 15.
Changed Rem. 4.9 into regular text. Reformulated statements of Theorems 5.1,
5.2, 5.4. Some changes in their proofs. Added references. Some small changes
in the text and in the figure
Deformation of surfaces in 2D persistent homology
In the context of 2D persistent homology a new metric has been recently introduced, the coherent matching distance. In order to study this metric, the filtering function is required to present particular “regularity” properties, based on a geometrical construction of the real plane, called extended Pareto grid. This dissertation shows a new result for modifying the extended Pareto grid associated to a filtering function defined on a smooth closed surface, with values in the real plane. In future, the technical result presented here could be used to prove the genericity of the regularity conditions assumed for the filtering function
A Brief Introduction to Multidimensional Persistent Betti Numbers
In this paper, we propose a brief overview about multidimensional persistent Betti numbers (PBNs) and the metric that is usually used to compare them, i.e., the multidimensional matching distance. We recall the main definitions and results, mainly focusing on the 2-dimensional case. An algorithm to approximate n-dimensional PBNs with arbitrary precision is described
The Topology ToolKit
This system paper presents the Topology ToolKit (TTK), a software platform
designed for topological data analysis in scientific visualization. TTK
provides a unified, generic, efficient, and robust implementation of key
algorithms for the topological analysis of scalar data, including: critical
points, integral lines, persistence diagrams, persistence curves, merge trees,
contour trees, Morse-Smale complexes, fiber surfaces, continuous scatterplots,
Jacobi sets, Reeb spaces, and more. TTK is easily accessible to end users due
to a tight integration with ParaView. It is also easily accessible to
developers through a variety of bindings (Python, VTK/C++) for fast prototyping
or through direct, dependence-free, C++, to ease integration into pre-existing
complex systems. While developing TTK, we faced several algorithmic and
software engineering challenges, which we document in this paper. In
particular, we present an algorithm for the construction of a discrete gradient
that complies to the critical points extracted in the piecewise-linear setting.
This algorithm guarantees a combinatorial consistency across the topological
abstractions supported by TTK, and importantly, a unified implementation of
topological data simplification for multi-scale exploration and analysis. We
also present a cached triangulation data structure, that supports time
efficient and generic traversals, which self-adjusts its memory usage on demand
for input simplicial meshes and which implicitly emulates a triangulation for
regular grids with no memory overhead. Finally, we describe an original
software architecture, which guarantees memory efficient and direct accesses to
TTK features, while still allowing for researchers powerful and easy bindings
and extensions. TTK is open source (BSD license) and its code, online
documentation and video tutorials are available on TTK's website
Unified Topological Inference for Brain Networks in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Using the Wasserstein Distance
Persistent homology can extract hidden topological signals present in brain
networks. Persistent homology summarizes the changes of topological structures
over multiple different scales called filtrations. Doing so detect hidden
topological signals that persist over multiple scales. However, a key obstacle
of applying persistent homology to brain network studies has always been the
lack of coherent statistical inference framework. To address this problem, we
present a unified topological inference framework based on the Wasserstein
distance. Our approach has no explicit models and distributional assumptions.
The inference is performed in a completely data driven fashion. The method is
applied to the resting-state functional magnetic resonance images (rs-fMRI) of
the temporal lobe epilepsy patients collected at two different sites:
University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Medical College of Wisconsin. However,
the topological method is robust to variations due to sex and acquisition, and
thus there is no need to account for sex and site as categorical nuisance
covariates. We are able to localize brain regions that contribute the most to
topological differences. We made MATLAB package available at
https://github.com/laplcebeltrami/dynamicTDA that was used to perform all the
analysis in this study
AVIDA: Alternating method for Visualizing and Integrating Data
High-dimensional multimodal data arises in many scientific fields. The
integration of multimodal data becomes challenging when there is no known
correspondence between the samples and the features of different datasets. To
tackle this challenge, we introduce AVIDA, a framework for simultaneously
performing data alignment and dimension reduction. In the numerical
experiments, Gromov-Wasserstein optimal transport and t-distributed stochastic
neighbor embedding are used as the alignment and dimension reduction modules
respectively. We show that AVIDA correctly aligns high-dimensional datasets
without common features with four synthesized datasets and two real multimodal
single-cell datasets. Compared to several existing methods, we demonstrate that
AVIDA better preserves structures of individual datasets, especially distinct
local structures in the joint low-dimensional visualization, while achieving
comparable alignment performance. Such a property is important in multimodal
single-cell data analysis as some biological processes are uniquely captured by
one of the datasets. In general applications, other methods can be used for the
alignment and dimension reduction modules.Comment: To appear in Journal of Computational Science (Accepted, 2023
Computing multiparameter persistent homology through a discrete Morse-based approach
Persistent homology allows for tracking topological features, like loops, holes and their higher-dimensional analogues, along a single-parameter family of nested shapes. Computing descriptors for complex data characterized by multiple parameters is becoming a major challenging task in several applications, including physics, chemistry, medicine, and geography. Multiparameter persistent homology generalizes persistent homology to allow for the exploration and analysis of shapes endowed with multiple filtering functions. Still, computational constraints prevent multiparameter persistent homology to be a feasible tool for analyzing large size data sets. We consider discrete Morse theory as a strategy to reduce the computation of multiparameter persistent homology by working on a reduced dataset. We propose a new preprocessing algorithm, well suited for parallel and distributed implementations, and we provide the first evaluation of the impact of multiparameter persistent homology on computations
Topological Learning for Brain Networks
This paper proposes a novel topological learning framework that can integrate
networks of different sizes and topology through persistent homology. This is
possible through the introduction of a new topological loss function that
enables such challenging task. The use of the proposed loss function bypasses
the intrinsic computational bottleneck associated with matching networks. We
validate the method in extensive statistical simulations with ground truth to
assess the effectiveness of the topological loss in discriminating networks
with different topology. The method is further applied to a twin brain imaging
study in determining if the brain network is genetically heritable. The
challenge is in overlaying the topologically different functional brain
networks obtained from the resting-state functional MRI (fMRI) onto the
template structural brain network obtained through the diffusion MRI (dMRI)
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