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This paper contains an expository account of persistent homology and its usefulness for topological data analysis. An alternative foundation for level-set persistence is presented using sheaves and cosheaves.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Justin Curry

Spatial variable genes (SVGs) reveal critical information about tissue architecture, cellular interactions, and disease microenvironments. As spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies proliferate, accurately identifying SVGs across diverse…

Applications · Statistics 2025-10-21 Jiawen Chen , Jinwei Zhang , Dongshen Peng , Yutong Song , Aitong Ruan , Yun Li , Didong Li

Persistent homology computes the multiscale topology of a data set by using a sequence of discrete complexes. In this paper, we propose that persistent homology may be a useful tool for studying the structure of the landscape of string…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-24 Alex Cole , Gary Shiu

The application of network techniques to the analysis of neural data has greatly improved our ability to quantify and describe these rich interacting systems. Among many important contributions, networks have proven useful in identifying…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-14 Ann E. Sizemore , Jennifer Phillips-Cremins , Robert Ghrist , Danielle S. Bassett

Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in the application of persistent homology, a topological tool for data analysis, to machine learning problems. Persistent homology is known for its ability to numerically characterize the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Jen-Yu Liu , Shyh-Kang Jeng , Yi-Hsuan Yang

In a world abundant with diverse data arising from complex acquisition techniques, there is a growing need for new data analysis methods. In this paper we focus on high-dimensional data that are organized into several hierarchical datasets.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Lior Aloni , Omer Bobrowski , Ronen Talmon

Persistent homology is a topological data analysis tool that has been widely generalized, extending its scope beyond the field of topology. Among its extensions, steady and ranging persistence were developed to study a wide variety of graph…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Yann-Situ Gazull

In recent years, the use of data-driven methods has provided insights into underlying patterns and principles behind culinary recipes. In this exploratory work, we introduce the use of topological data analysis, especially persistent…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-06-17 Emerson G. Escolar , Yuta Shimada , Masahiro Yuasa

We develop a method for analyzing spatial and spatiotemporal anomalies in geospatial data using topological data analysis (TDA). To do this, we use persistent homology (PH), which allows one to algorithmically detect geometric voids in a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-01 Abigail Hickok , Deanna Needell , Mason A. Porter

We present a new method for exploring cancer gene expression data based on tools from algebraic topology. Our method selects a small relevant subset from tens of thousands of genes while simultaneously identifying nontrivial higher order…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2014-10-15 Svetlana Lockwood , Bala Krishnamoorthy

Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) merges the benefits of pathology images and gene expression, linking molecular profiles with tissue structure to analyze spot-level function comprehensively. Predicting gene expression from histology images is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Chen Zhang , Yilu An , Ying Chen , Hao Li , Xitong Ling , Lihao Liu , Junjun He , Yuxiang Lin , Zihui Wang , Rongshan Yu

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

Topological data analysis provides a set of tools to uncover low-dimensional structure in noisy point clouds. Prominent amongst the tools is persistence homology, which summarizes birth-death times of homological features using data objects…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-05 James Matuk , Sebastian Kurtek , Karthik Bharath

Persistent homology (PH) is a method used in topological data analysis (TDA) to study qualitative features of data that persist across multiple scales. It is robust to perturbations of input data, independent of dimensions and coordinates,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Nina Otter , Mason A. Porter , Ulrike Tillmann , Peter Grindrod , Heather A. Harrington

In topological data analysis (TDA), one often studies the shape of data by constructing a filtered topological space, whose structure is then examined using persistent homology. However, a single filtered space often does not adequately…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Magnus Bakke Botnan , Michael Lesnick

The existence of characteristic structure, or shape, in complex data sets has been recognized as increasingly important for mathematical data analysis. This realization has motivated the development of new tools such as persistent homology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Sofya Chepushtanova , Michael Kirby , Chris Peterson , Lori Ziegelmeier

Topological data analysis is a relatively new branch of machine learning that excels in studying high dimensional data, and is theoretically known to be robust against noise. Meanwhile, data objects with mixed numeric and categorical…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Chengyuan Wu , Carol Anne Hargreaves

Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) enables the measurement of gene expression while preserving spatial information, offering critical insights into tissue architecture and disease pathology. Recent developments have explored the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Hai Dang Nguyen , Nguyen Dang Huy Pham , The Minh Duc Nguyen , Dac Thai Nguyen , Hang Thi Nguyen , Duong M. Nguyen

This paper introduces advanced techniques of Topological Data Analysis (TDA) for unsupervised anomaly detection and customer segmentation in banking data. Using the Mapper algorithm and persistent homology, we develop unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Leonardo Aldo Alejandro Barberi , Linda Maria De Cave

We present a novel method to explicitly incorporate topological prior knowledge into deep learning based segmentation, which is, to our knowledge, the first work to do so. Our method uses the concept of persistent homology, a tool from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-30 James R. Clough , Ilkay Oksuz , Nicholas Byrne , Julia A. Schnabel , Andrew P. King