Hidden Markov model analysis of subcellular particle trajectories

How do proteins, vesicles, or other particles within a cell move? Do they diffuse randomly or ow in a particular direction? Understanding how subcellular particles move in a cell will reveal fundamental principles of cell biology and biochemistry, and is a necessary prerequisite to synthetically engineering such processes. We investigate the application of several variants of hidden Markov models (HMMs) to analyzing the trajectories of such particles. And we compare the performance of our proposed algorithms with traditional approaches that involve fitting a mean square displacement (MSD) curve calculated from the particle trajectories. Our HMM algorithms are shown to be more accurate than existing MSD algorithms for heterogeneous trajectories which switch between multiple phases of motion.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2011

Author dc:creator

• Dey, Arkajit

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Mark Bathe.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66307

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/66307