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The Euler characteristic transform (ECT) is a simple to define yet powerful representation of shape. The idea is to encode an embedded shape using sub-level sets of a a function defined based on a given direction, and then returning the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Elizabeth Munch

The weighted Euler characteristic transform (WECT) is a new tool for extracting shape information from data equipped with a weight function. Image data may benefit from the WECT where the intensity of the pixels are used to define the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Jessi Cisewski-Kehe , Brittany Terese Fasy , Dhanush Giriyan , Eli Quist

The Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT) has proven to be a powerful representation, combining geometrical and topological characteristics of shapes and graphs. However, the ECT was hitherto unable to learn task-specific representations. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Ernst Roell , Bastian Rieck

The Euler characteristic transform (ECT) is an integral transform used widely in topological data analysis. Previous efforts by Curry et al. and Ghrist et al. have independently shown that the ECT is injective on all compact definable sets.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Mattie Ji

The Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT) is a robust method for shape classification. It takes an embedded shape and, for each direction, computes a piecewise constant function representing the Euler Characteristic of the shape's sublevel…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Jasmine George , Oscar Lledo Osborn , Elizabeth Munch , Messiah Ridgley , Elena Xinyi Wang

The Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT) of Turner et al. provides a way to statistically analyze non-diffeomorphic shapes without relying on landmarks. In applications, this transform is typically approximated by a discrete set of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-11-14 Henry Kirveslahti , Xiaohan Wang

The Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT) is an efficiently-computable geometrical-topological invariant that characterizes the global shape of data. In this paper, we introduce the Local Euler Characteristic Transform ($\ell$-ECT), a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Julius von Rohrscheidt , Bastian Rieck

The Euler characteristic transform (ECT) is a signature from topological data analysis (TDA) which summarises shapes embedded in Euclidean space. Compared with other TDA methods, the ECT is fast to compute and it is a sufficient statistic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Lewis Marsh , David Beers

Topological integral transforms have found many applications in shape analysis, from prediction of clinical outcomes in brain cancer to analysis of barley seeds. Using Euler characteristic as a measure, these objects record rich geometric…

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The weighted Euler characteristic transform (WECT) and Euler characteristic function (ECF) have proven to be useful tools in a variety of applications. However, current methods for computing these functions are either not optimized for GPU…

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Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is an aggressive form of human brain cancer that is under active study in the field of cancer biology. Its rapid progression and the relative time cost of obtaining molecular data make other readily-available…

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Organoids are multi-cellular structures which are cultured in vitro from stem cells to resemble specific organs (e.g., brain, liver) in their three-dimensional composition. Dynamic changes in the shape and composition of these model systems…

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In this paper we consider two topological transforms that are popular in applied topology: the Persistent Homology Transform (PHT) and the Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT). Both of these transforms are of interest for their mathematical…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-27 Justin Curry , Sayan Mukherjee , Katharine Turner

A new iterative image reconstruction algorithm for electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) is proposed that is based on iterative soft thresholding of a total variation penalty and adaptive reweighted compressive sensing. This algorithm…

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Let $\mathcal{H}$ be a noncommutative regular projective curve over a perfect field $k$. We study global and local properties of the Auslander-Reiten translation $\tau$ and give an explicit description of the complete local rings, with the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Dirk Kussin

Datasets are mathematical objects (e.g., point clouds, matrices, graphs, images, fields/functions) that have shape. This shape encodes important knowledge about the system under study. Topology is an area of mathematics that provides…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Alexander Smith , Victor Zavala

Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) is frequently used for waveform analysis. For example, in the field of neuroscience research, CWT is performed to analyze electroencephalograms (EEG) and calculate the index of brain activity. Recent…

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Anatomical structures such as the hippocampus, liver, and bones can be analyzed as orientable, closed surfaces. This permits the computation of volume, surface area, mean curvature, Gaussian curvature, and the Euler-Poincar\'e…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Bryce A Besler , Tannis D. Kemp , Andrew S. Michalski , Nils D. Forkert , Steven K. Boyd

Automatic tumor or lesion segmentation is a crucial step in medical image analysis for computer-aided diagnosis. Although the existing methods based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved the state-of-the-art performance,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-01 Shuchao Pang , Anan Du , Mehmet A. Orgun , Yan Wang , Quan Z. Sheng , Shoujin Wang , Xiaoshui Huang , Zhenmei Yu

Cryo-electron tomography (cryoET) is a technique that captures images of biological samples at different tilts, preserving their native state as much as possible. Along with the partial tilt series and noise, one of the major challenges in…

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