Growing self-organizing trees for autonomous hierarchical clustering
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Large-scale Reconstructions and Independent, Unbiased Clustering Based on Morphological Metrics to Classify Neurons in Selective Populations
Published on: February 15, 2017
Nhat-Quang Doan1, Hanane Azzag, Mustapha Lebbah
1Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord (LIPN), CNRS (UMR 7030), 99, av. J-B Clement, F-93430 Villetaneuse, France. nhat-quang.doan@lipn.univ-paris13.fr
Abstract:
This paper presents a new unsupervised learning method based on growing processes and autonomous self-assembly rules. This method, called Growing Self-organizing Trees (GSoT), can grow both network size and tree topology to represent the topological and hierarchical dataset organization, allowing a rapid and interactive visualization. Tree construction rules draw inspiration from elusive properties of biological organization to build hierarchical structures. Experiments conducted on real datasets demonstrate good GSoT performance and provide visual results that are generated during the training process.
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