Visualizing the structure of large trees

DOI10.1214/11-EJS612MaRDI QIDQ1952191zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Burcu Aydın, Gábor Pataki, Haonan Wang, Alim Ladha, Elizabeth Bullitt, J. S. Marron

Publication date 28 May 2013

Published in Electronic Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0951, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejs/1305034908

zbMATH Keywords

visualizationdata cleaningtree structurebrain arteriesdescendant-level view

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Graphical methods in statistics (62A09) Biomedical imaging and signal processing (92C55)

Abstract: This study introduces a new method of visualizing complex tree structured objects. The usefulness of this method is illustrated in the context of detecting unexpected features in a data set of very large trees. The major contribution is a novel two-dimensional graphical representation of each tree, with a covariate coded by color. The motivating data set contains three dimensional representations of brain artery systems of 105 subjects. Due to inaccuracies inherent in the medical imaging techniques, issues with the reconstruction algo- rithms and inconsistencies introduced by manual adjustment, various discrepancies are present in the data. The proposed representation enables quick visual detection of the most common discrepancies. For our driving example, this tool led to the modification of 10% of the artery trees and deletion of 6.7%. The benefits of our cleaning method are demonstrated through a statistical hypothesis test on the effects of aging on vessel structure. The data cleaning resulted in improved significance levels.

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Uses Software

• iTOL
• Dendroscope

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