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Deep learning has been shown to produce state of the art results in many tasks in biomedical imaging, especially in segmentation. Moreover, segmentation of the cerebrovascular structure from magnetic resonance angiography is a challenging…

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Retinal fundus photography enhancement is important for diagnosing and monitoring retinal diseases. However, early approaches to retinal image enhancement, such as those based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), often struggle to…

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We propose a neural network-based approach to topology optimization that aims to reduce the use of support structures in additive manufacturing. Our approach uses a network architecture that allows the simultaneous determination of an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Hongrui Chen , Aditya Joglekar , Kate S. Whitefoot , Levent Burak Kara

Classification and quantitative characterization of neuronal morphologies from histological neuronal reconstruction is challenging since it is still unclear how to delineate a neuronal cell class and which are the best features to define…

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This paper proposes a new topology optimization method that applies a convolutional neural network (CNN), which is one deep learning technique for topology optimization problems. Using this method, we acquire a structure with a little…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Yusuke Takahashi , Yoshiro Suzuki , Akira Todoroki

This paper presents a new artificial neuron model capable of learning its receptive field in the topological domain of inputs. The model provides adaptive and differentiable local connectivity (plasticity) applicable to any domain. It…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-08 F. Boray Tek

Neuronal networks constitute a special class of dynamical systems, as they are formed by individual geometrical components, namely the neurons. In the existing literature, relatively little attention has been given to the influence of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-13 Sebastian Ahnert , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

Deep neural networks (DNNs) play an increasingly important role in various computer systems. In order to create these networks, engineers typically specify a desired topology, and then use an automated training algorithm to select the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Ori Lahav , Guy Katz

In recent years, graph representation learning has gained significant popularity, which aims to generate node embeddings that capture features of graphs. One of the methods to achieve this is employing a technique called random walks that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Deniz Gurevin , Mohsin Shan , Tong Geng , Weiwen Jiang , Caiwen Ding , Omer Khan

Although classifying topological quantum phases have attracted great interests, the absence of local order parameter generically makes it challenging to detect a topological phase transition from experimental data. Recent advances in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-10-12 Entong Zhao , Ting Hin Mak , Chengdong He , Zejian Ren , Ka Kwan Pak , Yu-Jun Liu , Gyu-Boong Jo

Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) exploits the anisotropic diffusion of water molecules in the brain to enable the estimation of the brain's anatomical fiber tracts at a relatively high resolution. In particular, tractographic…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Yu Jin , Joseph F. JaJa , Rong Chen , Edward H. Herskovits

Drawing inspiration from our human brain that designs different neurons for different tasks, recent advances in deep learning have explored modifying a network's neurons to develop so-called task-driven neurons. Prototyping task-driven…

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Network tomography is a crucial problem in network monitoring, where the observable path performance metric values are used to infer the unobserved ones, making it essential for tasks such as route selection, fault diagnosis, and traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yuntong Hu , Junxiang Wang , Liang Zhao

Topological data analysis is an emerging mathematical concept for characterizing shapes in multi-scale data. In this field, persistence diagrams are widely used as a descriptor of the input data, and can distinguish robust and noisy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-13 Genki Kusano , Kenji Fukumizu , Yasuaki Hiraoka

Blood vessel networks in the brain play a crucial role in stroke research, where understanding their topology is essential for analyzing blood flow dynamics. However, extracting detailed topological vessel network information from…

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One of the challenges of full autonomy is to have a robot capable of manipulating its current environment to achieve another environment configuration. This paper is a step towards this challenge, focusing on the visual understanding of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Guilherme Maeda , Joni Väätäinen , Hironori Yoshida

Functional brain connectivity changes dynamically over time, making its representation challenging for learning on non-Euclidean data. We present a framework that encodes dynamic functional connectivity as an image representation of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-14 Peilin He , Tananun Songdechakraiwut

A recent publication provides the network graph for a neocortical microcircuit comprising 8 million connections between 31,000 neurons (H. Markram, et al., Reconstruction and simulation of neocortical microcircuitry, Cell, 163 (2015) no. 2,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-06-13 Pawe Dotko , Kathryn Hess , Ran Levi , Max Nolte , Michael Reimann , Martina Scolamiero , Katharine Turner , Eilif Muller , Henry Markram

Mobile robots require comprehensive scene understanding to operate effectively in diverse environments, enriched with contextual information such as layouts, objects, and their relationships. Although advances like neural radiation fields…

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The fields of mechanobiology and biomechanics are expanding our understanding of the complex behavior of soft biological tissues across multiple scales. Given the intricate connection between tissue microstructure and its macroscale…

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