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Subject: Re: PCA with VERY large number of landmarks?
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 21:11:26 -0400
From: Carlos Fabian Morantes Ariza <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Hi,
I think you should not use this huge amount of landmarks since you're
going to lose sensitivity and you also can't ensure positional homology
feasibility. I think you could find useful to treat your structure as
a contour or (if they are 3D data) several soft patches. This will avoid
the digitizing error. Another thing, you're not suppose to use more than
N/2 landmarks (with N being sour sample size).
Hope this work
Carlos Fabian Morantes Ariza
Department of biology
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2011/10/4 morphmet <[email protected]
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Subject: PCA with VERY large number of landmarks?
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 21:48:03 -0400
From: Adam Douglas Yock <[email protected]>
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To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Hello,
I am new to the field of morphometrics and have a (potentially very
ignorant) question.
I have images that contain a deformable body and a rigid body. The
images are rigidly registered to align the rigid bodies. The
deformable bodies are described by ~5,000 points which are matched
across each image. I believe my data is then comprised of the 3D
coordinates of the ~5,000 points of the deformable body depicted in
each image.
Can I treat these points as landmarks and perform a very
high-dimensional (~15,000-D) PCA? Is there any "curse of
dimensionality" with this method?
I appreciate your help.
Adam
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