Discovering Novel Biological Traits From Images Using Phylogeny-Guided Neural Networks
Discovering Novel Biological Traits From Images Using Phylogeny-Guided Neural Networks
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10.1145/3580305.3599808
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2023-06
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Mohannad Elhamod;Mridul Khurana;Harish Babu Manogaran;J. Uyeda;M. Balk;W. Dahdul;Yasin Bakics;H. Bart;Paula M. Mabee;H. Lapp;J. Balhoff;Caleb Charpentier;David Carlyn;Wei-Lun Chao;Chuck Stewart;D. Rubenstein;T. Berger-Wolf;A. Karpatne
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Mohannad Elhamod;Mridul Khurana;Harish Babu Manogaran;J. Uyeda;M. Balk;W. Dahdul;Yasin Bakics;H. Bart;Paula M. Mabee;H. Lapp;J. Balhoff;Caleb Charpentier;David Carlyn;Wei-Lun Chao;Chuck Stewart;D. Rubenstein;T. Berger-Wolf;A. Karpatne
Discovering evolutionary traits that are heritable across species on the tree of life (also referred to as a phylogenetic tree) is of great interest to biologists to understand how organisms diversify and evolve. However, the measurement of traits is often a subjective and labor-intensive process, making trait discovery a highly label-scarce problem. We present a novel approach for discovering evolutionary traits directly from images without relying on trait labels. Our proposed approach, Phylo-NN, encodes the image of an organism into a sequence of quantized feature vectors -or codes- where different segments of the sequence capture evolutionary signals at varying ancestry levels in the phylogeny. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in producing biologically meaningful results in a number of downstream tasks including species image generation and species-to-species image translation, using fish species as a target example