Topological Data Analysis of C. elegans Locomotion and Behavior

We apply topological data analysis to the behavior of C. elegans, a widely studied model organism in biology. In particular, we use topology to produce a quantitative summary of complex behavior which may be applied to high-throughput data. Our methods allow us to distinguish and classify videos fro...

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الحاوية / القاعدة:Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Ashleigh Thomas, Kathleen Bates, Alex Elchesen, Iryna Hartsock, Hang Lu, Peter Bubenik
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منشور في: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-01
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frai.2021.668395/full
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author Ashleigh Thomas
Kathleen Bates
Alex Elchesen
Iryna Hartsock
Hang Lu
Peter Bubenik
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description We apply topological data analysis to the behavior of C. elegans, a widely studied model organism in biology. In particular, we use topology to produce a quantitative summary of complex behavior which may be applied to high-throughput data. Our methods allow us to distinguish and classify videos from various environmental conditions and we analyze the trade-off between accuracy and interpretability. Furthermore, we present a novel technique for visualizing the outputs of our analysis in terms of the input. Specifically, we use representative cycles of persistent homology to produce synthetic videos of stereotypical behaviors.
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spelling doaj-art-ddf8d3e925d84f46a9d8bbc9595f5dea2025-08-19T21:11:23ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence2624-82122021-06-01410.3389/frai.2021.668395668395Topological Data Analysis of C. elegans Locomotion and BehaviorAshleigh Thomas0Kathleen Bates1Alex Elchesen2Iryna Hartsock3Hang Lu4Peter Bubenik5School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United StatesSchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United StatesDepartment of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United StatesDepartment of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United StatesSchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United StatesDepartment of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United StatesWe apply topological data analysis to the behavior of C. elegans, a widely studied model organism in biology. In particular, we use topology to produce a quantitative summary of complex behavior which may be applied to high-throughput data. Our methods allow us to distinguish and classify videos from various environmental conditions and we analyze the trade-off between accuracy and interpretability. Furthermore, we present a novel technique for visualizing the outputs of our analysis in terms of the input. Specifically, we use representative cycles of persistent homology to produce synthetic videos of stereotypical behaviors.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frai.2021.668395/fullpersistent homologytopological data analysisdelay embeddingsliding window embeddingC. elegansbehavior phenotyping
spellingShingle Ashleigh Thomas
Kathleen Bates
Alex Elchesen
Iryna Hartsock
Hang Lu
Peter Bubenik
Topological Data Analysis of C. elegans Locomotion and Behavior
persistent homology
topological data analysis
delay embedding
sliding window embedding
C. elegans
behavior phenotyping
title Topological Data Analysis of C. elegans Locomotion and Behavior
title_full Topological Data Analysis of C. elegans Locomotion and Behavior
title_fullStr Topological Data Analysis of C. elegans Locomotion and Behavior
title_full_unstemmed Topological Data Analysis of C. elegans Locomotion and Behavior
title_short Topological Data Analysis of C. elegans Locomotion and Behavior
title_sort topological data analysis of c elegans locomotion and behavior
topic persistent homology
topological data analysis
delay embedding
sliding window embedding
C. elegans
behavior phenotyping
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