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Blood vessel segmentation and -tracing are essential tasks in many medical imaging applications. Although numerous methods exist, the prevailing segment-then-fix paradigm is fundamentally limited regarding its suitability for modeling the…

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Graph coarsening is a graph dimensionality reduction technique that aims to construct a smaller and more tractable graph while preserving the essential structural and semantic properties of the original graph. However, most existing methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Xu Bai , Bin Lu , Kun Zhang , Shengbo Chen , Xinbing Wang , Chenghu Zhou , Meng Jin

Recent advancements in learning algorithms have demonstrated that the sharpness of the loss surface is an effective measure for improving the generalization gap. Building upon this concept, Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) was proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Tanapat Ratchatorn , Masayuki Tanaka

Capturing the global topology of an image is essential for proposing an accurate segmentation of its domain. However, most of existing segmentation methods do not preserve the initial topology of the given input, which is detrimental for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Minh On Vu Ngoc , Yizi Chen , Nicolas Boutry , Jonathan Fabrizio , Clement Mallet

In many biomedical segmentation tasks, the preservation of elongated structure continuity and length is more important than voxel-wise accuracy. We propose two novel loss functions, Negative Centerline Loss and Simplified Topology Loss,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Karol Szustakowski , Luk Frank , Julia Esser , Jan Gründemann , Marie Piraud

The recent contrastive learning methods, due to their effectiveness in representation learning, have been widely applied to modeling graph data. Random perturbation is widely used to build contrastive views for graph data, which however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Yucheng Shi , Kaixiong Zhou , Ninghao Liu

Curvilinear structure segmentation is important in medical imaging, quantifying structures such as vessels, airways, neurons, or organ boundaries in 2D slices. Segmentation via pixel-wise classification often fails to capture the small and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Manxi Lin , Zahra Bashir , Martin Grønnebæk Tolsgaard , Anders Nymark Christensen , Aasa Feragen

Software projects are dependent on many third-party libraries, therefore high-risk vulnerabilities can propagate through the dependency chain to downstream projects. Owing to the subjective nature of patch management, software vendors…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Mei Han , Lulu Wang , Jianming Chang , Bixin Li , Chunguang Zhang

Graph self-supervised learning seeks to learn effective graph representations without relying on labeled data. Among various approaches, graph autoencoders (GAEs) have gained significant attention for their efficiency and scalability.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yang Liu , Deyu Bo , Wenxuan Cao , Yuan Fang , Yawen Li , Chuan Shi

We present CAGE (Continuity-Aware edGE) network, a robust framework for reconstructing vector floorplans directly from point-cloud density maps. Traditional corner-based polygon representations are highly sensitive to noise and incomplete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Yiyi Liu , Chunyang Liu , Bohan Wang , Weiqin Jiao , Bojian Wu , Lubin Fan , Yuwei Chen , Fashuai Li , Biao Xiong

Hierarchical multi-label classification (HMLC) is essential for modeling structured label dependencies in remote sensing. Yet existing approaches struggle in multi-path settings, where images may activate multiple taxonomic branches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Boshko Koloski , Marjan Stoimchev , Jurica Levatić , Dragi Kocev , Sašo Džeroski

Graph embedding provides an efficient solution for graph analysis by converting the graph into a low-dimensional space which preserves the structure information. In contrast to the graph structure data, the i.i.d. node embedding can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Hongyun Cai , Vincent W. Zheng , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

Recently, patch-wise contrastive learning is drawing attention for the image translation by exploring the semantic correspondence between the input and output images. To further explore the patch-wise topology for high-level semantic…

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Vessel segmentation and centerline extraction are two crucial preliminary tasks for many computer-aided diagnosis tools dealing with vascular diseases. Recently, deep-learning based methods have been widely applied to these tasks. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-23 Pierre Rougé , Nicolas Passat , Odyssée Merveille

Fixed representational capacity is a fundamental constraint in continual learning: practitioners must guess an appropriate model width before training, without knowing how many distinct concepts the data contains. We propose LACE…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shivnath Tathe

Embedding methods transform the knowledge graph into a continuous, low-dimensional space, facilitating inference and completion tasks. Existing methods are mainly divided into two types: translational distance models and semantic matching…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Deepak Banerjee , Anjali Ishaan

Graph embedding algorithms are used to efficiently represent (encode) a graph in a low-dimensional continuous vector space that preserves the most important properties of the graph. One aspect that is often overlooked is whether the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Zekarias T. Kefato , Nasrullah Sheikh , Alberto Montresor

We present path2vec, a new approach for learning graph embeddings that relies on structural measures of pairwise node similarities. The model learns representations for nodes in a dense space that approximate a given user-defined graph…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Andrey Kutuzov , Mohammad Dorgham , Oleksiy Oliynyk , Chris Biemann , Alexander Panchenko

Graph topology identification (GTI) is a central challenge in networked systems, where the underlying structure is often hidden, yet nodal data are available. Conventional solutions to address these challenges rely on probabilistic models…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Yongsheng Han , Raj Thilak Rajan , Geert Leus

In this work, we discover that causal inference provides a promising approach to capture heterophilic message-passing in Graph Neural Network (GNN). By leveraging cause-effect analysis, we can discern heterophilic edges based on asymmetric…

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