| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 70, Number 2, April 2005
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 278 - 284 | |
| Section | Interdisciplinary physics and related areas of science and technology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2004-10483-y | |
| Published online | 25 March 2005 | |
Hierarchical clustering using mutual information
1
John-von-Neumann Institute for Computing, Forschungszentrum Jülich D-52425 Jülich, Germany
2
Division of Biology, MC 139-74, California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Received:
8
June
2004
Accepted:
1
March
2005
We present a conceptually simple method for hierarchical
clustering of data called mutual information clustering
(MIC) algorithm. It uses mutual information (MI) as a similarity
measure and exploits its grouping property: The MI between three
objects X, Y, and Z is equal to the sum of the MI between
X and Y, plus the MI between Z and the combined object
. We use this both in the Shannon (probabilistic) version
of information theory and in the Kolmogorov (algorithmic)
version. We apply our method to the construction of phylogenetic
trees from mitochondrial DNA sequences and to the output of
independent components analysis (ICA) as illustrated with the ECG
of a pregnant woman.
PACS: 89.70.+c – Information theory and communication theory / 89.75.Hc – Networks and genealogical trees / 87.19.Hh – Cardiac dynamics
© EDP Sciences, 2005
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