-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Re: PCA with VERY large number of landmarks?
Date:   Tue, 4 Oct 2011 21:16:06 -0400
From:   Carlos Fabian Morantes Ariza <[email protected]>
To:     [email protected]



Sorry, landmarks should not be more than N/2 for 2D and N/3 for 3D.


Carlos Fabian Morantes Ariza
Department of Biology
Universidad Nacional de Colombia

2011/10/4 Carlos Fabian Morantes Ariza <[email protected] <mailto:[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]
   <mailto:[email protected]>>



       -------- Original Message --------
       Subject:         PCA with VERY large number of landmarks?
       Date:    Mon, 3 Oct 2011 21:48:03 -0400
       From:    Adam Douglas Yock <[email protected]>
       <mailto:[email protected]>
       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
       [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>



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