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The Euler characteristic transform (ECT) is a simple to define yet powerful representation of shape. The idea is to encode an embedded shape using sub-level sets of a a function defined based on a given direction, and then returning the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Elizabeth Munch

The Euler characteristic transform (ECT) is a signature from topological data analysis (TDA) which summarises shapes embedded in Euclidean space. Compared with other TDA methods, the ECT is fast to compute and it is a sufficient statistic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Lewis Marsh , David Beers

The Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT) has proven to be a powerful representation, combining geometrical and topological characteristics of shapes and graphs. However, the ECT was hitherto unable to learn task-specific representations. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Ernst Roell , Bastian Rieck

The Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT) is an efficiently-computable geometrical-topological invariant that characterizes the global shape of data. In this paper, we introduce the Local Euler Characteristic Transform ($\ell$-ECT), a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Julius von Rohrscheidt , Bastian Rieck

The Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT) of Turner et al. provides a way to statistically analyze non-diffeomorphic shapes without relying on landmarks. In applications, this transform is typically approximated by a discrete set of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-11-14 Henry Kirveslahti , Xiaohan Wang

The shape of a molecule determines its physicochemical and biological properties. However, it is often underrepresented in standard molecular representation learning approaches. Here, we propose using the Euler Characteristic Transform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Victor Toscano-Duran , Florian Rottach , Bastian Rieck

The Euler characteristic transform (ECT) is an integral transform used widely in topological data analysis. Previous efforts by Curry et al. and Ghrist et al. have independently shown that the ECT is injective on all compact definable sets.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Mattie Ji

The Euler Curve Transform (ECT) of Turner et al.\ is a complete invariant of an embedded simplicial complex, which is amenable to statistical analysis. We generalize the ECT to provide a similarly convenient representation for weighted…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Qitong Jiang , Sebastian Kurtek , Tom Needham

Given a definable function $f: S \to \mathbb{R}$ on a definable set $S$, we study sublevel sets of the form $S^f_t \coloneqq \{x \in S: f(x) \leq t\}$ for all $t \in \mathbb{R}$. Using o-minimal structures, we prove that the Euler…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Mattie Ji , Kun Meng

Datasets are mathematical objects (e.g., point clouds, matrices, graphs, images, fields/functions) that have shape. This shape encodes important knowledge about the system under study. Topology is an area of mathematics that provides…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Alexander Smith , Victor Zavala

The weighted Euler characteristic transform (WECT) is a new tool for extracting shape information from data equipped with a weight function. Image data may benefit from the WECT where the intensity of the pixels are used to define the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Jessi Cisewski-Kehe , Brittany Terese Fasy , Dhanush Giriyan , Eli Quist

In this paper we consider two topological transforms that are popular in applied topology: the Persistent Homology Transform (PHT) and the Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT). Both of these transforms are of interest for their mathematical…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-27 Justin Curry , Sayan Mukherjee , Katharine Turner

Organoids are multi-cellular structures which are cultured in vitro from stem cells to resemble specific organs (e.g., brain, liver) in their three-dimensional composition. Dynamic changes in the shape and composition of these model systems…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-23 Lewis Marsh , Felix Y. Zhou , Xiao Qin , Xin Lu , Helen M. Byrne , Heather A. Harrington

The Euler characteristic (EC) is a powerful topological descriptor that can be used to quantify the shape of data objects that are represented as fields/manifolds. Fast methods for computing the EC are required to enable processing of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Daniel J. Laky , Victor M. Zavala

Persistent homology (PH) -- the conventional method in topological data analysis -- is computationally expensive, requires further vectorization of its signatures before machine learning (ML) can be applied, and captures information along…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Salam Rabindrajit Luwang , Sushovan Majhi , Vishal Mandal , Atish J. Mitra , Md. Nurujjaman , Buddha Nath Sharma

We present Euler Characteristic Surfaces as a multiscale spatiotemporal topological summary of time series data encapsulating the topology of the system at different time instants and length scales. Euler Characteristic Surfaces with an…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-20 Anamika Roy , Atish J. Mitra , Tapati Dutta

The computer vision task of reconstructing 3D images, i.e., shapes, from their single 2D image slices is extremely challenging, more so in the regime of limited data. Deep learning models typically optimize geometric loss functions, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Kalyan Varma Nadimpalli , Amit Chattopadhyay , Bastian Rieck

The Euler calculus -- an integral calculus based on Euler characteristic as a valuation on constructible functions -- is shown to be an incisive tool for answering questions about injectivity and invertibility of recent transforms based on…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-06-15 Robert Ghrist , Rachel Levanger , Huy Mai

The weighted Euler characteristic transform (WECT) and Euler characteristic function (ECF) have proven to be useful tools in a variety of applications. However, current methods for computing these functions are either not optimized for GPU…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Jessi Cisewski-Kehe , Brittany Terese Fasy , Alexander McCleary , Eli Quist

We consider a topological integral transform of Bessel (concentric isospectral sets) type and Fourier (hyperplane isospectral sets) type, using the Euler characteristic as a measure. These transforms convert constructible $\zed$-valued…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Robert Ghrist , Michael Robinson
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