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Morphological methods play a crucial role in remote sensing image processing, due to their ability to capture and preserve small structural details. However, most of the existing deep learning models for semantic segmentation are based on…

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Neuromorphology is crucial to identifying neuronal subtypes and understanding learning. It is also implicated in neurological disease. However, standard morphological analysis focuses on macroscopic features such as branching frequency and…

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Deep learning has proven to successfully learn variations in tissue and cell morphology. Training of such models typically relies on expensive manual annotations. Here we conjecture that spatially resolved gene expression, e.i., the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-11 Axel Andersson , Gabriele Partel , Leslie Solorzano , Carolina Wählby

In this study, we present a method of pattern mining based on network theory that enables the identification of protein structures or complexes from synthetic volume densities, without the knowledge of predefined templates or human biases…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-18 August George , Doo Nam Kim , Trevor Moser , Ian T. Gildea , James E. Evans , Margaret S. Cheung

Comparing weighted networks in neuroscience is hard, because the topological properties of a given network are necessarily dependent on the number of edges of that network. This problem arises in the analysis of both weighted and unweighted…

Applications · Statistics 2014-03-28 Cedric E. Ginestet , Arnaud P. Fournel , Andrew Simmons

We present a novel approach to automatically segment magnetic resonance (MR) images of the human brain into anatomical regions. Our methodology is based on a deep artificial neural network that assigns each voxel in an MR image of the brain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Alexandre de Brebisson , Giovanni Montana

In this paper, we consider the problem of distributed inference in tree based networks. In the framework considered in this paper, distributed nodes make a 1-bit local decision regarding a phenomenon before sending it to the fusion center…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Bhavya Kailkhura , Aditya Vempaty , Pramod K. Varshney

One of the critical steps in improving accurate single neuron reconstruction from three-dimensional (3D) optical microscope images is the neuronal structure segmentation. However, they are always hard to segment due to the lack in quality.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-25 Heng Wang , Yang Song , Chaoyi Zhang , Jianhui Yu , Siqi Liu , Hanchuan Peng , Weidong Cai

The neuronal networks in the mammals cortex are characterized by the coexistence of hierarchy, modularity, short and long range interactions, spatial correlations, and topographical connections. Particularly interesting, the latter type of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Luciano da F. Costa , Luis Diambra

Given a 3D surface defined by an elevation function on a 2D grid as well as non-spatial features observed at each pixel, the problem of surface segmentation aims to classify pixels into contiguous classes based on both non-spatial features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Wenchong He , Arpan Man Sainju , Zhe Jiang , Da Yan

Understanding the deep representations of complex networks is an important step of building interpretable and trustworthy machine learning applications in the age of internet. Global surrogate models that approximate the predictions of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Baihan Lin

At the intersection of computation and cognitive science, graph theory is utilized as a formalized description of complex relationships and structures. Traditional graph models are often static, lacking dynamic and autonomous behavioral…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-11 Hui Wei , Chenyue Feng , Jianning Zhang

Understanding how the brain represents and processes information is crucial for advancing neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Representational similarity analysis (RSA) has been instrumental in characterizing neural representations,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-23 Baihan Lin

The topological morphology descriptor of a neuron is a multiset of intervals associated to the shape of the neuron represented as a tree. In practice, topological morphology descriptors are vectorized using persistence images, which can…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-17 David Beers , Heather A. Harrington , Alain Goriely

Introduced is a methodology for adapting the topology of dense neural networks, enabled by isotropic activation functions. Achieved through prescribed reparameterisation symmetries and singular-value decomposition of affine maps, this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-08 George Bird

Advances in image registration and machine learning have recently enabled volumetric analysis of postmortem brain tissue from conventional photographs of coronal slabs, which are routinely collected in brain banks and neuropathology…

Semantic image segmentation is one of the most important tasks in medical image analysis. Most state-of-the-art deep learning methods require a large number of accurately annotated examples for model training. However, accurate annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Ning Zhang , Susan Francis , Rayaz Malik , Xin Chen

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) can be represented as graphs whose links and vertices iteratively process data and solve tasks sub-optimally. Complex Network Theory (CNT), merging statistical physics with graph theory, provides a method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Emanuele La Malfa , Gabriele La Malfa , Giuseppe Nicosia , Vito Latora

A compositional tree refers to a tree structure on a set of random variables where each random variable is a node and composition occurs at each non-leaf node of the tree. As a generalization of compositional data, compositional trees…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-20 Bingkai Wang , Brian S. Caffo , Xi Luo , Chin-Fu Liu , Andreia V. Faria , Michael I. Miller , Yi Zhao

We present neuron embeddings, a representation that can be used to tackle polysemanticity by identifying the distinct semantic behaviours in a neuron's characteristic dataset examples, making downstream manual or automatic interpretation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Alex Foote