[SciPy-user] Looking for a way to cluster data
Gary Ruben
gruben at bigpond.net.au
Sat Apr 25 23:18:59 EDT 2009
Hi all,
I'm looking for some advice on how to order data points so that I can
visualise them. I've been looking at scipy.cluster for this purpose but
I'm not sure whether it is suitable so I thought I'd see whether anyone
had suggestions for a simpler suggestion of how to order the coordinates.
I have a binary 3D array containing 1's that form a shape in a 3D volume
against a background of 0's - they form a skeleton of a connected,
branched structure. Furthermore, the points are all 26-connected to each
other, i.e. there are no gaps in the skeleton. The longest chains may be
1000's of points long.
It would be nice to visualise these using the mayavi mlab plot3d
function, which draws tubes and which requires ordered coordinates as
input, so I need to get ordered coordinate lists that traverse the
points along the branches of the skeleton. It would also be nice to
preferentially cluster long chains since then I can cull very short
chains from the visualisation.
scipy.cluster seems to be able to cluster the points but I'm not sure
how to get the x,y,z coordinates of the original points out of its
linkage data. This may not be possible. Maybe the scipy.spatial module
is a better match to my problem.
Any suggestions?
Gary
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