Quantification and visualization of variation in anatomical trees
  This paper presents two approaches to quantifying and visualizing variation in datasets of trees. The first approach localizes subtrees in which significant population differences are found through hypothesis testing and sparse classifiers on subtree features. The second approach visualizes the global metric structure of datasets through low-distortion embedding into hyperbolic planes in the style of multidimensional scaling. A case study is made on a dataset of airway trees in relation to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. 
Nina Amenta and Manasi Datar and Asger Dirksen and Marleen de Bruijne   and Aasa Feragen and Xiaoyin Ge and Jesper Holst Ped...
stat.AP q-bio.QM