Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization Theory, Algorithms, and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pascucci, Valerio (Editor), Tricoche, Xavier (Editor), Hagen, Hans (Editor), Tierny, Julien (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Mathematics and Visualization,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Computer graphics.; Visualization.; Geometry.; Topology.; Computational intelligence.; Mechanical engineering.; Computer Graphics.; Mechanical Engineering.; Computational Intelligence.

Topology-based methods are of increasing importance in the analysis and visualization of datasets from a wide variety of scientific domains such as biology, physics, engineering, and medicine. Current challenges of topology-based techniques include the management of time-dependent data, the represen...

Table of Contents:

• Foundations of Computational Topology
• Hierarchical Topological Data-Structures
• Topological Feature Extraction Algorithms
• Applications in Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization
• Topological Analysis of Large-Scale Scientific Data
• Indices.