A Spatiotemporal Statistical Model for Eyeballs of Human Embryos

Masashi KISHIMOTO, Atsushi SAITO, Tetsuya TAKAKUWA, Shigehito YAMADA, Hiroshi MATSUZOE, Hidekata HONTANI, Akinobu SHIMIZU

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During the development of a human embryo, the position of eyes moves medially and caudally in the viscerocranium. A statistical model of this process can play an important role in embryology by facilitating qualitative analyses of change. This paper proposes an algorithm to construct a spatiotemporal statistical model for the eyeballs of a human embryo. The proposed modeling algorithm builds a statistical model of the spatial coordinates of the eyeballs independently for each Carnegie stage (CS) by using principal component analysis (PCA). In the process, a q-Gaussian distribution with a model selection scheme based on the Aaike information criterion is used to handle a non-Gaussian distribution with a small sample size. Subsequently, it seamlessly interpolates the statistical models of neighboring CSs, and we present 10 interpolation methods. We also propose an estimation algorithm for the CS using our spatiotemporal statistical model. A set of images of eyeballs in human embryos from the Kyoto Collection was used to train the model and assess its performance. The modeling results suggested that information geometry-based interpolation under the assumption of a q-Gaussian distribution is the best modeling method. The average error in CS estimation was 0.409. We proposed an algorithm to construct a spatiotemporal statistical model of the eyeballs of a human embryo and tested its performance using the Kyoto Collection.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E100-D No.7 pp.1505-1515
Publication Date
2017/07/01
Publicized
2017/04/17
Online ISSN
1745-1361
DOI
10.1587/transinf.2016EDP7493
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Biological Engineering

Authors

Masashi KISHIMOTO
  Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Atsushi SAITO
  Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Tetsuya TAKAKUWA
  Kyoto University
Shigehito YAMADA
  Kyoto University
Hiroshi MATSUZOE
  Nagoya Institute of Technology
Hidekata HONTANI
  Nagoya Institute of Technology
Akinobu SHIMIZU
  Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

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