Book description
Welcome to Scientific Python and its community. If you’re a scientist who programs with Python, this practical guide not only teaches you the fundamental parts of SciPy and libraries related to it, but also gives you a taste for beautiful, easy-to-read code that you can use in practice. You’ll learn how to write elegant code that’s clear, concise, and efficient at executing the task at hand.
Throughout the book, you’ll work with examples from the wider scientific Python ecosystem, using code that illustrates principles outlined in the book. Using actual scientific data, you’ll work on real-world problems with SciPy, NumPy, Pandas, scikit-image, and other Python libraries.
- Explore the NumPy array, the data structure that underlies numerical scientific computation
- Use quantile normalization to ensure that measurements fit a specific distribution
- Represent separate regions in an image with a Region Adjacency Graph
- Convert temporal or spatial data into frequency domain data with the Fast Fourier Transform
- Solve sparse matrix problems, including image segmentations, with SciPy’s sparse module
- Perform linear algebra by using SciPy packages
- Explore image alignment (registration) with SciPy’s optimize module
- Process large datasets with Python data streaming primitives and the Toolz library
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Table of contents
- Preface
- 1. Elegant NumPy: The Foundation of Scientific Python
- 2. Quantile Normalization with NumPy and SciPy
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3. Networks of Image Regions with ndimage
- Images Are Just NumPy Arrays
- Filters in Signal Processing
- Filtering Images (2D Filters)
- Generic Filters: Arbitrary Functions of Neighborhood Values
- Graphs and the NetworkX library
- Region Adjacency Graphs
- Elegant ndimage: How to Build Graphs from Image Regions
- Putting It All Together: Mean Color Segmentation
- 4. Frequency and the Fast Fourier Transform
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5. Contingency Tables Using Sparse Coordinate Matrices
- Contingency Tables
- scipy.sparse Data Formats
- Applications of Sparse Matrices: Image Transformations
- Back to Contingency Tables
- Contingency Tables in Segmentation
- Information Theory in Brief
- Information Theory in Segmentation: Variation of Information
- Converting NumPy Array Code to Use Sparse Matrices
- Using Variation of Information
- 6. Linear Algebra in SciPy
- 7. Function Optimization in SciPy
- 8. Big Data in Little Laptop with Toolz
- Epilogue
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Appendix. Exercise Solutions
- Solution: Adding a Grid Overlay
- Solution: Conway’s Game of Life
- Solution: Sobel Gradient Magnitude
- Solution: Curve Fitting with SciPy
- Solution: Image Convolution
- Solution: Computational Complexity of Confusion Matrices
- Solution: Alternative Confusion Matrix Computing
- Solution: Computing the Confusion Matrix
- Solution: COO Representation
- Solution: Image Rotation
- Solution: Reducing the Memory Footprint
- Solution: Computing Conditional Entropy
- Solution: Rotation Matrix
- Solution: Showing the Affinity View
- Challenge Accepted: Linear Algebra with Sparse Matrices
- Solution: Dealing with Dangling Nodes
- Solution: Verify Methods
- Solution: Modify the align Function
- Solution: scikit-learn Library
- Solution: Add a Step to the Start of the Pipe
- Index
Product information
- Title: Elegant SciPy
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2017
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781491922941
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