coarsegrainTrackData.m

Class: Function

Description: Bins spatial coordinates into the specified grid and finds the instantaneous average velocity and orientation of all objects within these bins for each timepoint. This coarsegrained representation of the motility data is output.

Author: Oliver J. Meacock

coarsegrainTrackData.m

function [fieldFlow,fieldPhi] = coarsegrainTrackData(procTracks,trackSettings,noBinsX,noBinsY)
%COARSEGRAINTRACKDATA converts track data into continuum flowfield data by
%binning up cells and averaging their instantaneous velocities in each bin.
%
%   INPUTS:
%       -procTracks: The track data to be coarsegrained
%       -trackSettings: The settings used to generate the input track data
%       -noBinsX: The number of bins in the x-direction
%       -noBinsY: The number of bins in the y-direction
%
%   OUTPUTS:
%       -fieldFlow: The coarse-grained flowfields
%       -fieldPhi: The coarse-grained orientation fields
%
%   Author: Oliver J. Meacock, 2021
 
%Bin data from the PTV approach into boxes equivalent to the PIV grid
xEdges = linspace(0,trackSettings.maxX,noBinsX+1);
yEdges = linspace(0,trackSettings.maxY,noBinsY+1);
 
flowBins = cell(noBinsX,noBinsY,trackSettings.maxF);
oriBins = cell(noBinsX,noBinsY,trackSettings.maxF);
 
%Collate data from all tracks into bin structure
%Track loop
for i = 1:size(procTracks,2)
    us = procTracks(i).vmag .* cosd(procTracks(i).theta);
    vs = -procTracks(i).vmag .* sind(procTracks(i).theta); %Negative undoes the flipping of theta in the original version of the data
    oris = procTracks(i).phi;
    ts = procTracks(i).times;
    for j = 1:size(procTracks(i).x,1)-1
        xBin = find(diff(procTracks(i).x(j) > xEdges));
        yBin = find(diff(procTracks(i).y(j) > yEdges));
        tBin = ts(j);
 
        if ~isempty(xBin)&&~isempty(yBin)
            flowBins{yBin,xBin,tBin} = [flowBins{yBin,xBin,tBin};us(j),vs(j)];
            oriBins{yBin,xBin,tBin} = [oriBins{yBin,xBin,tBin};oris(j)];
        end
    end
end
 
fieldFlow = zeros(noBinsX,noBinsY,trackSettings.maxF,2);
fieldPhi = zeros(noBinsX,noBinsY,trackSettings.maxF);
for i = 1:noBinsX
    for j = 1:noBinsY
        for t = 1:fieldSettings.maxF
            fieldFlow(i,j,t,1) = nanmean(flowBins{i,j,t}(:,1));
            fieldFlow(i,j,t,2) = nanmean(flowBins{i,j,t}(:,2));
            fieldPhi(i,j,t) = rad2deg(circ_mean(deg2rad(oriBins{i,j,t})*2)/2);
        end
    end
end

Example usage

%Apply coarsegraining procedure to some input monolayer data
[fieldFlow,fieldPhi] = coarsgrainTrackData(procTracks,fieldSettings,40,40)
 
%Visualise results for 100th timepoint using quiver and image representations of flow and orientation data respectively
subplot(1,2,1)
quiver(fieldFlow(:,:,100,1),fieldFlow(:,:,100,2))
axis equal
 
subplot(1,2,2)
imagesc(fieldPhi(:,:,100))
axis equal
colormap('hsv') %HSV is a circular colourmap - appropriate for use with circular data

Example output