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Noise robustness of persistent homology on greyscale images, across filtrations and signatures
Topological data analysis is a recent and fast growing field that approaches the analysis of datasets using techniques from (algebraic) topology. Its main tool, persistent homology (PH), has seen a notable increase in applications in the last decade. Often cited as the most favourable property of PH...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8462731/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34559812 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257215 |
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author | Turkeš, Renata Nys, Jannes Verdonck, Tim Latré, Steven |
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description | Topological data analysis is a recent and fast growing field that approaches the analysis of datasets using techniques from (algebraic) topology. Its main tool, persistent homology (PH), has seen a notable increase in applications in the last decade. Often cited as the most favourable property of PH and the main reason for practical success are the stability theorems that give theoretical results about noise robustness, since real data is typically contaminated with noise or measurement errors. However, little attention has been paid to what these stability theorems mean in practice. To gain some insight into this question, we evaluate the noise robustness of PH on the MNIST dataset of greyscale images. More precisely, we investigate to what extent PH changes under typical forms of image noise, and quantify the loss of performance in classifying the MNIST handwritten digits when noise is added to the data. The results show that the sensitivity to noise of PH is influenced by the choice of filtrations and persistence signatures (respectively the input and output of PH), and in particular, that PH features are often not robust to noise in a classification task. |
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spelling | pubmed-84627312021-09-25 Noise robustness of persistent homology on greyscale images, across filtrations and signatures Turkeš, Renata Nys, Jannes Verdonck, Tim Latré, Steven PLoS One Research Article Topological data analysis is a recent and fast growing field that approaches the analysis of datasets using techniques from (algebraic) topology. Its main tool, persistent homology (PH), has seen a notable increase in applications in the last decade. Often cited as the most favourable property of PH and the main reason for practical success are the stability theorems that give theoretical results about noise robustness, since real data is typically contaminated with noise or measurement errors. However, little attention has been paid to what these stability theorems mean in practice. To gain some insight into this question, we evaluate the noise robustness of PH on the MNIST dataset of greyscale images. More precisely, we investigate to what extent PH changes under typical forms of image noise, and quantify the loss of performance in classifying the MNIST handwritten digits when noise is added to the data. The results show that the sensitivity to noise of PH is influenced by the choice of filtrations and persistence signatures (respectively the input and output of PH), and in particular, that PH features are often not robust to noise in a classification task. Public Library of Science 2021-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8462731/ /pubmed/34559812 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257215 Text en © 2021 Turkeš et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Turkeš, Renata Nys, Jannes Verdonck, Tim Latré, Steven Noise robustness of persistent homology on greyscale images, across filtrations and signatures |
title | Noise robustness of persistent homology on greyscale images, across filtrations and signatures |
title_full | Noise robustness of persistent homology on greyscale images, across filtrations and signatures |
title_fullStr | Noise robustness of persistent homology on greyscale images, across filtrations and signatures |
title_full_unstemmed | Noise robustness of persistent homology on greyscale images, across filtrations and signatures |
title_short | Noise robustness of persistent homology on greyscale images, across filtrations and signatures |
title_sort | noise robustness of persistent homology on greyscale images, across filtrations and signatures |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8462731/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34559812 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257215 |
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