Convex Analysis of Mixtures for Separating Non-negative Well-grounded Sources

06/28/2014
by   Yitan Zhu, et al.
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Blind Source Separation (BSS) has proven to be a powerful tool for the analysis of composite patterns in engineering and science. We introduce Convex Analysis of Mixtures (CAM) for separating non-negative well-grounded sources, which learns the mixing matrix by identifying the lateral edges of the convex data scatter plot. We prove a sufficient and necessary condition for identifying the mixing matrix through edge detection, which also serves as the foundation for CAM to be applied not only to the exact-determined and over-determined cases, but also to the under-determined case. We show the optimality of the edge detection strategy, even for cases where source well-groundedness is not strictly satisfied. The CAM algorithm integrates plug-in noise filtering using sector-based clustering, an efficient geometric convex analysis scheme, and stability-based model order selection. We demonstrate the principle of CAM on simulated data and numerically mixed natural images. The superior performance of CAM against a panel of benchmark BSS techniques is demonstrated on numerically mixed gene expression data. We then apply CAM to dissect dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging data taken from breast tumors and time-course microarray gene expression data derived from in-vivo muscle regeneration in mice, both producing biologically plausible decomposition results.

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