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Tumor segmentation in whole-slide images of histology slides is an important step towards computer-assisted diagnosis. In this work, we propose a tumor segmentation framework based on the novel concept of persistent homology profiles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Talha Qaiser , Yee-Wah Tsang , Daiki Taniyama , Naoya Sakamoto , Kazuaki Nakane , David Epstein , Nasir Rajpoot

We study connectivity preserving multivalued functions between digital images. This notion generalizes that of continuous multivalued functions studied mostly in the setting of the digital plane $Z^2$. We show that connectivity preserving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-24 Laurence Boxer , P. Christopher Staecker

The Persistent Homology Transform (PHT) summarizes a shape in $\mathbb{R}^m$ by collecting persistence diagrams obtained from linear height filtrations in all directions on $\mathbb{S}^{m-1}$. It enjoys strong theoretical guarantees,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Michael Kerber , Elena Xinyi Wang

Persistent homology is an important methodology in topological data analysis which adapts theory from algebraic topology to data settings. Computing persistent homology produces persistence diagrams, which have been successfully used in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-13 Yueqi Cao , Anthea Monod

Clearing is a simple but effective optimization for the standard algorithm of persistent homology (PH), which dramatically improves the speed and scalability of PH computations for Vietoris--Rips filtrations. Due to the quick growth of the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-04 Ulrich Bauer , Fabian Lenzen , Michael Lesnick

Persistent homology, a powerful mathematical tool for data analysis, summarizes the shape of data through tracking topological features across changes in different scales. Classical algorithms for persistent homology are often constrained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Bernardo Ameneyro , George Siopsis , Vasileios Maroulas

Machine learning for point clouds has been attracting much attention, with many applications in various fields, such as shape recognition and material science. For enhancing the accuracy of such machine learning methods, it is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Naoki Nishikawa , Yuichi Ike , Kenji Yamanishi

Persistent topological properties of an image serve as an additional descriptor providing an insight that might not be discovered by traditional neural networks. The existing research in this area focuses primarily on efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Ekaterina Khramtsova , Guido Zuccon , Xi Wang , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh

This article aims to study the topological invariant properties encoded in node graph representational embeddings by utilizing tools available in persistent homology. Specifically, given a node embedding representation algorithm, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Mustafa Hajij , Ghada Zamzmi , Xuanting Cai

In this paper we develop a novel Topological Data Analysis (TDA) approach for studying graph representations of time series of dynamical systems. Specifically, we show how persistent homology, a tool from TDA, can be used to yield a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-28 Audun Myers , Elizabeth Munch , Firas A. Khasawneh

Persistent homology is a powerful tool for characterizing the topology of a data set at various geometric scales. When applied to the description of molecular structures, persistent homology can capture the multiscale geometric features and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-07-31 Zixuan Cang , Guo-Wei Wei

Topological data analysis and its main method, persistent homology, provide a toolkit for computing topological information of high-dimensional and noisy data sets. Kernels for one-parameter persistent homology have been established to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-06 René Corbet , Ulderico Fugacci , Michael Kerber , Claudia Landi , Bei Wang

Recently, persistent homology has had tremendous success in biomolecular data analysis. It works by examining the topological relationship or connectivity of a group of atoms in a molecule at a variety of scales, then rendering a family of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-27 David Bramer , Guo-Wei Wei

Persistent homology, a technique from computational topology, has recently shown strong empirical performance in the context of graph classification. Being able to capture long range graph properties via higher-order topological features,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Rubén Ballester , Bastian Rieck

The Hough transform is a popular and classical technique in computer vision for the detection of lines (or more general objects). It maps a pixel into a dual space -- the Hough space: each pixel is mapped to the set of lines through this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Johannes Ferner , Stefan Huber , Saverio Messineo , Angel Pop , Martin Uray

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a rising field of computational topology in which the topological structure of a data set can be observed by persistent homology. By considering a sequence of sublevel sets, one obtains a filtration that…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-03-17 Yu-Min Chung , William Cruse , Austin Lawson

We introduce a method for training neural networks to perform image or volume segmentation in which prior knowledge about the topology of the segmented object can be explicitly provided and then incorporated into the training process. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 James R. Clough , Nicholas Byrne , Ilkay Oksuz , Veronika A. Zimmer , Julia A. Schnabel , Andrew P. King

We propose a novel approach for preserving topological structures of the input space in latent representations of autoencoders. Using persistent homology, a technique from topological data analysis, we calculate topological signatures of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Michael Moor , Max Horn , Bastian Rieck , Karsten Borgwardt

We propose an approach to learning with graph-structured data in the problem domain of graph classification. In particular, we present a novel type of readout operation to aggregate node features into a graph-level representation. To this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Christoph D. Hofer , Florian Graf , Bastian Rieck , Marc Niethammer , Roland Kwitt

In this paper we present a new approach to computing homology (with field coefficients) and persistent homology. We use concepts from discrete Morse theory, to provide an algorithm which can be expressed solely in terms of simple graph…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2012-10-26 Paweł Dłotko , Hubert Wagner