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Representation learning on graphs is a fundamental problem that can be crucial in various tasks. Graph neural networks, the dominant approach for graph representation learning, are limited in their representation power. Therefore, it can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Zuoyu Yan , Qi Zhao , Ze Ye , Tengfei Ma , Liangcai Gao , Zhi Tang , Yusu Wang , Chao Chen

We consider the problem of molecular graph generation using deep models. While graphs are discrete, most existing methods use continuous latent variables, resulting in inaccurate modeling of discrete graph structures. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Youzhi Luo , Keqiang Yan , Shuiwang Ji

Accurate segmentation of tubular and curvilinear structures, such as blood vessels, neurons, and road networks, is crucial in various applications. A key challenge is ensuring topological correctness while maintaining computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-21 Siyi Wu , Leyi Zhao , Haotian Ma , Xinyuan Song

Acquiring plausible pathways on high-dimensional structural distributions is beneficial in several domains. For example, in the drug discovery field, a protein conformational pathway, i.e. a highly probable sequence of protein structural…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-04 Ziyad Oulhaj , Yoshiyuki Ishii , Kento Ohga , Kimihiro Yamazaki , Mutsuyo Wada , Yuhei Umeda , Takashi Kato , Yuichiro Wada , Hiroaki Kurihara

Coronary artery extraction is a crucial prerequisite for computer-aided diagnosis of coronary artery disease. Accurately extracting the complete coronary tree remains challenging due to several factors, including presence of thin distal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-03 Yuehui Qiu , Dandan Shan , Yining Wang , Pei Dong , Dijia Wu , Xinnian Yang , Qingqi Hong , Dinggang Shen

Undirected graphical models are powerful tools for uncovering complex relationships among high-dimensional variables. This paper aims to fully recover the structure of an undirected graphical model when the data naturally take matrix form,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-08 Minsub Shin , Johan Lim , Seongoh Park

Network topology inference is a cornerstone problem in statistical analyses of complex systems. In this context, the fresh look advocated here permeates benefits from convex optimization and graph signal processing, to identify the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques , Gonzalo Mateos , Alejandro Ribeiro

Graph clustering or community detection constitutes an important task for investigating the internal structure of graphs, with a plethora of applications in several domains. Traditional techniques for graph clustering, such as spectral…

Deep learning-based medical image segmentation and surface mesh generation typically involve a sequential pipeline from image to segmentation to meshes, often requiring large training datasets while making limited use of prior geometric…

Thyroid nodule segmentation in ultrasound images is crucial for accurate diagnosis and treatment planning. However, existing methods face challenges in segmentation accuracy, interpretability, and generalization, which hinder their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xinjie Sun , Boxiong Wei , Yalong Jiang , Liquan Mao , Qi Zhao

Vasculature is known to be of key biological significance, especially in the study of cancer. As such, considerable effort has been focused on the automated measurement and analysis of vasculature in medical and pre-clinical images. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Russell Bates , Benjamin Irving , Bostjan Markelc , Jakob Kaeppler , Ruth Muschel , Vicente Grau , Julia A. Schnabel

Skeletonization extracts thin representations from images that compactly encode their geometry and topology. These representations have become an important topological prior for preserving connectivity in curvilinear structures, aiding…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Luis D. Reyes Vargas , Martin J. Menten , Johannes C. Paetzold , Nassir Navab , Mohammad Farid Azampour

Due to the absence of a single standardized imaging protocol, domain shift between data acquired from different sites is an inherent property of medical images and has become a major obstacle for large-scale deployment of learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Dewei Hu , Hao Li , Han Liu , Xing Yao , Jiacheng Wang , Ipek Oguz

Automatic road graph extraction from aerial and satellite images is a long-standing challenge. Existing algorithms are either based on pixel-level segmentation followed by vectorization, or on iterative graph construction using next move…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Gaetan Bahl , Mehdi Bahri , Florent Lafarge

Graph foundation models represent a transformative paradigm for learning transferable representations across diverse graph domains. Recent methods leverage large language models to unify graph and text modalities into a shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Heng Zhang , Tianyi Zhang , Yuling Shi , Xiaodong Gu , Yaomin Shen , Haochen You , Zijian Zhang , Yilei Yuan , Jin Huang

Fluorescence microscopy has become a widely used tool for studying various biological structures of in vivo tissue or cells. However, quantitative analysis of these biological structures remains a challenge due to their complexity which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Soonam Lee , Chichen Fu , Paul Salama , Kenneth W. Dunn , Edward J. Delp

We present a structural clustering algorithm for large-scale datasets of small labeled graphs, utilizing a frequent subgraph sampling strategy. A set of representatives provides an intuitive description of each cluster, supports the…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Till Schäfer , Petra Mutzel

Chemical structure extraction from documents remains a hard problem due to both false positive identification of structures during segmentation and errors in the predicted structures. Current approaches rely on handcrafted rules and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Joshua Staker , Kyle Marshall , Robert Abel , Carolyn McQuaw

Topology identification and inference of processes evolving over graphs arise in timely applications involving brain, transportation, financial, power, as well as social and information networks. This chapter provides an overview of graph…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Gonzalo Mateos , Yanning Shen , Georgios B. Giannakis , Ananthram Swami

In our recent research, we have developed a framework called GraphSnapShot, which has been proven an useful tool for graph learning acceleration. GraphSnapShot is a framework for fast cache, storage, retrieval and computation for graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Dong Liu , Roger Waleffe , Meng Jiang , Shivaram Venkataraman