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Blood vessel segmentation is one of the most studied topics in computer vision, due to its relevance in daily clinical practice. Despite the evolution the field has been facing, especially after the dawn of deep learning, important…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-02 R. J. Araújo , J. S. Cardoso , H. P. Oliveira

Understanding how the brain represents and processes information is crucial for advancing neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Representational similarity analysis (RSA) has been instrumental in characterizing neural representations,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-23 Baihan Lin

Thoracic aortic dissection and aneurysms are the most lethal diseases of the aorta. The major hindrance to treatment lies in the accurate analysis of the medical images. More particularly, aortic segmentation of the 3D image is often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-14 Loris Giordano , Ine Dirks , Tom Lenaerts , Jef Vandemeulebroucke

Motivated by the challenging segmentation task of pancreatic tubular networks, this paper tackles two commonly encountered problems in biomedical imaging: Topological consistency of the segmentation, and expensive or difficult annotation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Kasra Arnavaz , Oswin Krause , Kilian Zepf , Jelena M. Krivokapic , Silja Heilmann , Jakob Andreas Bærentzen , Pia Nyeng , Aasa Feragen

The purposes of this study were to investigate: 1) the effect of placement of region-of-interest (ROI) for texture analysis of subchondral bone in knee radiographs, and 2) the ability of several texture descriptors to distinguish between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-18 Neslihan Bayramoglu , Aleksei Tiulpin , Jukka Hirvasniemi , Miika T. Nieminen , Simo Saarakkala

Recently, the structural reading comprehension (SRC) task on web pages has attracted increasing research interests. Although previous SRC work has leveraged extra information such as HTML tags or XPaths, the informative topology of web…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Zihan Zhao , Lu Chen , Ruisheng Cao , Hongshen Xu , Xingyu Chen , Kai Yu

Geometric, topological and graph theory modeling and analysis of biomolecules are of essential importance in the conceptualization of molecular structure, function, dynamics, and transport. On the one hand, geometric modeling provides…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2016-12-07 Kelin Xia , Guo-Wei Wei

Tumor shape is a key factor that affects tumor growth and metastasis. This paper proposes a topological feature computed by persistent homology to characterize tumor progression from digital pathology and radiology images and examines its…

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This paper describes a new spatial correspondence representation based on paired regions-of-interest (ROIs), for medical image registration. The distinct properties of the proposed ROI-based correspondence are discussed, in the context of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Shiqi Huang , Tingfa Xu , Ziyi Shen , Shaheer Ullah Saeed , Wen Yan , Dean Barratt , Yipeng Hu

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

Accurately modeling multi-class cell topology is crucial in digital pathology, as it provides critical insights into tissue structure and pathology. The synthetic generation of cell topology enables realistic simulations of complex tissue…

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Accurate segmenting nuclei instances is a crucial step in computer-aided image analysis to extract rich features for cellular estimation and following diagnosis as well as treatment. While it still remains challenging because the wide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Yanning Zhou , Omer Fahri Onder , Qi Dou , Efstratios Tsougenis , Hao Chen , Pheng-Ann Heng

Robotic manipulation tasks involving cutting deformable objects remain challenging due to complex topological behaviors, difficulties in perceiving dense object states, and the lack of efficient evaluation methods for cutting outcomes. In…

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Neural networks encode inputs as high-dimensional vectors, known as representations, that capture how models process data by encoding task-relevant structure and semantics. Representation alignment refers to the degree to which different…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xinyuan Yan , Rita Sevastjanova , Mennatallah El-Assady , Bei Wang

Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) is an effective tool for the analysis of structural brain connectivity in normal development and in a broad range of brain disorders. However efforts to derive inherent characteristics of structural brain…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Yu Jin , Joseph F. JaJa , Rong Chen , Edward H. Herskovits

Network topology identification (TI) is an essential function for distributed energy resources management systems (DERMS) to organize and operate widespread distributed energy resources (DERs). In this paper, discriminant analysis (DA) is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Mohammad Jafarian , Alireza Soroudi , Andrew Keane

Optical tomography has emerged as a non-invasive imaging method, providing three-dimensional insights into subcellular structures and thereby enabling a deeper understanding of cellular functions, interactions, and processes. Conventional…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Jiawei Sun , Bin Yang , Nektarios Koukourakis , Jochen Guck , Juergen W. Czarske

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) allows us to extract powerful topological and higher-order information on the global shape of a data set or point cloud. Tools like Persistent Homology or the Euler Transform give a single complex description…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Vincent P. Grande , Michael T. Schaub

Automated medical report generation for 3D PET/CT imaging is fundamentally challenged by the high-dimensional nature of volumetric data and a critical scarcity of annotated datasets, particularly for low-resource languages. Current…

While branching network structures abound in nature, their objective analysis is more difficult than expected because existing quantitative methods often rely on the subjective judgment of branch structures. This problem is particularly…

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