Topological data analysis

L Wasserman - Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Topological data analysis (TDA) can broadly be described as a collection of data analysis
methods that find structure in data. These methods include clustering, manifold estimation …

Generative models for network neuroscience: prospects and promise

RF Betzel, DS Bassett - Journal of The Royal Society …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Network neuroscience is the emerging discipline concerned with investigating the complex
patterns of interconnections found in neural systems, and identifying principles with which to …

What can topology tell us about the neural code?

C Curto - Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 2017 - ams.org
Neuroscience is undergoing a period of rapid experimental progress and expansion. New
mathematical tools, previously unknown in the neuroscience community, are now being …

What makes a neural code convex?

C Curto, E Gross, J Jeffries, K Morrison, M Omar… - SIAM Journal on Applied …, 2017 - SIAM
Neural codes allow the brain to represent, process, and store information about the world.
Combinatorial codes, comprised of binary patterns of neural activity, encode information via …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of control targets in Boolean molecular network models via computational algebra

D Murrugarra, A Veliz-Cuba, B Aguilar… - BMC systems …, 2016 - Springer
Background Many problems in biomedicine and other areas of the life sciences can be
characterized as control problems, with the goal of finding strategies to change a disease or …

[HTML][HTML] Tropical coordinates on the space of persistence barcodes

S Kališnik - Foundations of Computational Mathematics, 2019 - Springer
The aim of applied topology is to use and develop topological methods for applied
mathematics, science and engineering. One of the main tools is persistent homology, an …

[HTML][HTML] Obstructions to convexity in neural codes

C Lienkaemper, A Shiu, Z Woodstock - Advances in Applied Mathematics, 2017 - Elsevier
How does the brain encode spatial structure? One way is through hippocampal neurons
called place cells, which become associated to convex regions of space known as their …

On open and closed convex codes

J Cruz, C Giusti, V Itskov, B Kronholm - Discrete & computational geometry, 2019 - Springer
Neural codes serve as a language for neurons in the brain. Open (or closed) convex codes,
which arise from the pattern of intersections of collections of open (or closed) convex sets in …

Neural codes, decidability, and a new local obstruction to convexity

A Chen, F Frick, A Shiu - SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry, 2019 - SIAM
Given an intersection pattern of arbitrary sets in Euclidean space, is there an arrangement of
convex open sets in Euclidean space that exhibits the same intersections? This question is …

A no-go theorem for one-layer feedforward networks

C Giusti, V Itskov - Neural computation, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is often hypothesized that a crucial role for recurrent connections in the brain is to constrain
the set of possible response patterns, thereby shaping the neural code. This implies the …