Topological analysis of biological data using persistence landscapes
Presenter
September 12, 2016
Abstract
One approach to combining geometry, topology and statistics in the analysis of data consists of the following steps: (1) use the data to construct a geometric object; (2) apply topology to obtain a summary; and (3) apply statistics to the resulting summaries. From a statistical viewpoint, it is fruitful to replace the standard topological summary, the persistence diagram, with a vector (or better yet, a point in a Hilbert space). One such construction with particularly nice properties (e.g. reversability) is the persistence landscape. I will give an overview of this pipeline and apply it to analyze protein data and brain imaging data.