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Persistent homology is a powerful mathematical tool that summarizes useful information about the shape of data allowing one to detect persistent topological features while one adjusts the resolution. However, the computation of such…

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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…

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Spatial transcriptomics studies are becoming increasingly large and commonplace, necessitating simultaneous analysis of a large number of spatially resolved variables. Correspondingly, a diverse range of methodologies have been proposed to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-09 James Boyle , Gregory Hamm , Eleanor Williams , Robin JG Hartman , Magnus Soderburg , Ian Henry , Michael Casey

Link prediction is an important learning task for graph-structured data. In this paper, we propose a novel topological approach to characterize interactions between two nodes. Our topological feature, based on the extended persistent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Zuoyu Yan , Tengfei Ma , Liangcai Gao , Zhi Tang , Chao Chen

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

In this work, we introduce persistent homology for the analysis of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) density maps. We identify the topological fingerprint or topological signature of noise, which is widespread in cryo-EM data. For low…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-12-09 Kelin Xia , Guo-Wei Wei

Functional brain networks exhibit topological structures that reflect neural organization; however, statistical comparison of these networks is challenging for several reasons. This paper introduces a topologically invariant permutation…

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Existing research highlights the crucial role of topological priors in image segmentation, particularly in preserving essential structures such as connectivity and genus. Accurately capturing these topological features often requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Wenxiao Li , Xue-Cheng Tai , Jun Liu

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) combines computational topology and data science to extract and analyze intrinsic topological and geometric structures in data set in a metric space. While the persistent homology (PH), a widely used tool in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Chuanshen Hu , Yu Wang , Kelin Xia , Ke Ye , Yipeng Zhang

Understanding the decision-making processes of large language models is critical given their widespread applications. To achieve this, we aim to connect a formal mathematical framework - zigzag persistence from topological data analysis -…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Yuri Gardinazzi , Karthik Viswanathan , Giada Panerai , Alessio Ansuini , Alberto Cazzaniga , Matteo Biagetti

Persistent homology is a cornerstone of topological data analysis, offering a multiscale summary of topology with robustness to nuisance transformations, such as rotations and small deformations. Persistent homology has seen broad use…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-19 Zitian Wu , Arkaprava Roy , Leo L. Duan

We use methods from computational algebraic topology to study functional brain networks, in which nodes represent brain regions and weighted edges encode the similarity of fMRI time series from each region. With these tools, which allow one…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-08-27 Bernadette J. Stolz , Tegan Emerson , Satu Nahkuri , Mason A. Porter , Heather A. Harrington

This paper introduces persistent homology, which is a powerful tool to characterize the shape of data using the mathematical concept of topology. We explain the fundamental idea of persistent homology from scratch using some examples. We…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Ippei Obayashi , Takenobu Nakamura , Yasuaki Hiraoka

We start with a simple introduction to topological data analysis where the most popular tool is called a persistent diagram. Briefly, a persistent diagram is a multiset of points in the plane describing the persistence of topological…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Christophe Biscio , Jesper Møller

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) provides tools to describe the shape of data, but integrating topological features into deep learning pipelines remains challenging, especially when preserving local geometric structure rather than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Elena Xinyi Wang , Arnur Nigmetov , Dmitriy Morozov

Phase separation mechanisms can produce a variety of complicated and intricate microstructures, which often can be difficult to characterize in a quantitative way. In recent years, a number of novel topological metrics for microstructures…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Paweł Dłotko , Thomas Wanner

Topological features based on persistent homology capture high-order structural information so as to augment graph neural network methods. However, computing extended persistent homology summaries remains slow for large and dense graphs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Zuoyu Yan , Tengfei Ma , Liangcai Gao , Zhi Tang , Yusu Wang , Chao Chen

Different cell types aggregate and sort into hierarchical architectures during the formation of animal tissues. The resulting spatial organization depends (in part) on the strength of adhesion of one cell type to itself relative to other…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-02 Dhananjay Bhaskar , William Y. Zhang , Alexandria Volkening , Björn Sandstede , Ian Y. Wong

This article studies the robust version of persistent homology based on trimming methodology to capture the geometric feature through support of the data in presence of outliers. Precisely speaking, the proposed methodology works when the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-01 Tuhin Subhra Mahato , Subhra Sankar Dhar

Biomolecular structure comparison not only reveals evolutionary relationships, but also sheds light on biological functional properties. However, traditional definitions of structure or sequence similarity always involve superposition or…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-07-13 Kelin Xia