Elastic analysis of irregularly or sparsely sampled curves

DOI10.48550/ARXIV.2104.11039zbMATH Open1522.62232arXiv2104.11039MaRDI QIDQ85670FDOQ85670

Sonja Greven, Lisa Steyer, Almond Stöcker, Sonja Greven, Author name not available (Why is that?), Almond Stöcker

Publication date: 22 April 2021

Published in: Biometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We provide statistical analysis methods for samples of curves when the image but not the parametrisation of the curves is of interest. A parametrisation invariant analysis can be based on the elastic distance of the curves modulo warping, but existing methods have limitations in common realistic settings where curves are irregularly and potentially sparsely observed. We provide methods and algorithms to approximate the elastic distance for such curves via interpreting them as polygons. Moreover, we propose to use spline curves for modelling smooth or polygonal Fr'echet means of open or closed curves with respect to the elastic distance and show identifiability of the spline model modulo warping. We illustrate the use of our methods for elastic mean and distance computation by application to two datasets. The first application clusters sparsely sampled GPS tracks based on the elastic distance and computes smooth means for each cluster to find new paths on Tempelhof field in Berlin. The second classifies irregularly sampled handwritten spirals of Parkinson's patients and controls based on the elastic distance to a mean spiral curve computed using our approach. All developed methods are implemented in the exttt{R}-package exttt{elasdics} and evaluated in simulations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.11039

zbMATH Keywords

functional data analysiscurve alignmentFisher-Rao Riemannian metricmultivariate functional dataregistrationsquare-root-velocity transformationwarping

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10)

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