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Nicolas A C Davey¹, J Geoffrey Chase¹, Cong Zhou¹

¹University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

|April 11, 2024

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A new hypersphere method accurately represents high-dimensional data, preserving crucial information lost by other algorithms. This approach simplifies complex physiological models and aids optimization in parameter spaces.

Keywords:

Cardiovascular Dimensionality Hypersphere Parameter space analysis Visualisation

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Mathematical Modeling
Data Analysis

Background:

Physiological models often involve numerous variables and extensive clinical data, necessitating analysis in high-dimensional spaces.
Current algorithms for high-dimensional data analysis can lose critical dimensionality or fail to fully describe point positions.
There is a need for advanced algorithms that preserve the complete positional information of data points in high-dimensional spaces.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce and evaluate the most-distant uncovered point (MDUP) hypersphere method for analyzing high-dimensional data.
To demonstrate the MDUP method's ability to preserve dimensionality and accurately represent data point positions.
To assess the MDUP method's performance on a complex, clinically relevant dataset.

Main Methods:

The most-distant uncovered point (MDUP) hypersphere method employs a binary classification approach.
It iteratively generates hyperspheres centered on the most distant uncovered points until the entire region of interest is covered.
The method was tested on a 7-dimensional space with over 35 million points from a cardiovascular system model.

Main Results:

The MDUP hypersphere method generates larger spheres in less complex areas and smaller spheres around boundaries to accurately define regions.
Runtime scales quadratically, influenced by the non-parallelized implementation.
The method effectively captures the structure of high-dimensional regions using a limited number of hyperspheres.

Conclusions:

The MDUP hypersphere method provides an interpretable representation of high-dimensional spaces using center points and radii.
It can identify large continuous regions and capture the general structure of data.
The method shows potential for initializing optimization algorithms in feasible parameter spaces, improving model identifiability and optimization outcomes.