Physics Colloquium
Inference and the detection of hidden structures in complex physical systems by multi scale clustering
Zohar Nussinov
Abstract
We survey the application of a relatively new branch of statistical physics community detection to data mining In particular we focus on the diagnosis of materials and automated image segmentation Community detection describes the quest of partitioning a complex system involving many elements into optimally decoupled subsets or communities of such elements We review a multi resolution variant to ascertain structures at different spatial and temporal scales Significant