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Sasaki metrics for analysis of longitudinal data on manifolds

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Sasaki metrics for analysis of longitudinal data on manifolds
Longitudinal data arises in many applications in which the goal is to understand changes in individual entities over time. In this paper, we present a method for analyzing longitudinal data that take values in a Riemannian manifold. A driving application is to characterize anatomical shape changes and to distinguish between trends in anatomy that are healthy versus those that are due to disease. We present a generative hierarchical model in which each individual is modeled by a geodesic trend, which in turn is considered as a perturbation of the mean geodesic trend for the population. Each geodesic in the model can be uniquely parameterized by a starting point and velocity, i.e., a point in the tangent bundle. Comparison between these parameters is achieved through the Sasaki metric, which provides a natural distance metric on the tangent bundle. We develop a statistical hypothesis test for differences between two groups of longitudinal data by generalizing the Hotelling T2 statistic ...
Prasanna Muralidharan, P. Thomas Fletcher
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Type Journal
Year 2012
Where CVPR
Authors Prasanna Muralidharan, P. Thomas Fletcher
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