KEYWORDS: Brain, Data analysis, Neuroimaging, Magnetic resonance imaging, Analytical research, Brain mapping, Distance measurement, Functional magnetic resonance imaging, Medical imaging
Clustering is widely used in medical imaging to reduce data dimension and discover subgroups in patient populations. However, most of the current clustering algorithms depend on scale parameters which are especially difficult to select. Persistence homology has been introduced to address this issue. This topological data analysis framework analyses a dataset at multiple scales by generating clusters of increasing sizes, similar to single-linkage hierarchical clustering. Because of this approach, however, the results are sensitive to the presence of noise and outliers. Several strategies have been suggested to fix this issue. In this paper, we support this research effort by demonstrating how gradient preserving data smoothings, such as total variation regularization, can improve the stability of persistence homology results, and we derive analytical confidence regions for the significance of the persistence measured for clusters based on Pearson distances. We demonstrate the advantages of our methods by analysing structural and functional MRI data released by the Human Connectome Project.
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