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ArticleInternational journal of computer vision2013

A linear optimal transportation framework for quantifying and visualizing variations in sets of images.

Wei Wang, Dejan Slepčev, Saurav Basu, John A Ozolek, Gustavo K Rohde

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Article in International journal of computer vision, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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5 authors.

Wei WangCenter for Bioimage Informatics, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213 USA.
Dejan Slepčev
Saurav Basu
John A Ozolek
Gustavo K Rohde

Funding

Image-derived Spatiotemporal Models of Cellular Organization and PerturbationR01GM090033 · NIGMS · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI MURPHY, ROBERT F, ROHDE, GUSTAVO KUNDE · 2010 to 2018
$2.4M
Deformation-Based Computational Morphometry for Cell Biology ApplicationsR21GM088816 · NIGMS · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI ROHDE, GUSTAVO KUNDE · 2009 to 2010
$333k
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM090033NIGMS NIH HHS R21 GM088816
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transportation-based metrics for comparing images have long been applied to analyze images, especially where one can interpret the pixel intensities (or derived quantities) as a distribution of 'mass' that can be transported without strict geometric constraints. Here we describe a new transportation-based framework for analyzing sets of images. More specifically, we describe a new transportation-related distance between pairs of images, which we denote as linear optimal transportation (LOT). The LOT can be used directly on pixel intensities, and is based on a linearized version of the Kantorovich-Wasserstein metric (an optimal transportation distance, as is the earth mover's distance). The new framework is especially well suited for computing all pairwise distances for a large database of images efficiently, and thus it can be used for pattern recognition in sets of images. In addition, the new LOT framework also allows for an isometric linear embedding, greatly facilitating the ability to visualize discriminant information in different classes of images. We demonstrate the application of the framework to several tasks such as discriminating nuclear chromatin patterns in cancer cells, decoding differences in facial expressions, galaxy morphologies, as well as sub cellular protein distributions.

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linear embeddingOptimal transportation

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