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Segmentation is often an essential intermediate step in image analysis. A volume segmentation characterizes the underlying volume image in terms of geometric information--segments, faces between segments, curves in which several faces…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-10-01 Bjoern Andres , Ullrich Koethe , Thorben Kroeger , Fred A. Hamprecht

The topological analysis of four-dimensional (4D) image-type data is challenged by the immense size that these datasets can reach. This can render the direct application of methods, like persistent homology and convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Khalil Mathieu Hannouch , Stephan Chalup

We use Topological Data Analysis tools for studying the inner organization of cells in segmented images of epithelial tissues. More specifically, for each segmented image, we compute different persistence barcodes, which codify lifetime of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 N. Atienza , M. J. Jimenez , M. Soriano-Trigueros

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…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Haruhisa Oda , Mayuko Kida , Yoichi Nakata , Hiroki Kurihara

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

Image segmentation is an important component of many image understanding systems. It aims to group pixels in a spatially and perceptually coherent manner. Typically, these algorithms have a collection of parameters that control the degree…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Marc Bosch , Christopher M. Gifford , Austin G. Dress , Clare W. Lau , Jeffrey G. Skibo , Gordon A. Christie

Persistent Homology is a powerful tool in Topological Data Analysis (TDA) to capture topological properties of data succinctly at different spatial resolutions. For graphical data, shape, and structure of the neighborhood of individual data…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Sumit Bhatia , Bapi Chatterjee , Deepak Nathani , Manohar Kaul

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a rising branch in modern applied mathematics. It extracts topological structures as features of a given space and uses these features to analyze digital data. Persistent homology, one of the central tools…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Chuan-Shen Hu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are a standard tool for computer vision tasks such as image classification. However, typical model architectures may result in the loss of topological information. In specific domains such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Shrunal Pothagoni , Benjamin Schweinhart

Geometric data augmentation is widely used in segmentation workflows, but polygon annotations are often assumed to remain valid after transformation. This assumption can fail in structured domains such as architectural floorplan analysis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Sudip Laudari , Sang Hun Baek

Information networks are becoming increasingly popular to capture complex relationships across various disciplines, such as social networks, citation networks, and biological networks. The primary challenge in this domain is measuring…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Mehmet Emin Aktas , Esra Akbas , Ahmed El Fatmaoui

This paper presents a new regularization method to train a fully convolutional network for semantic tissue segmentation in histopathological images. This method relies on the benefit of unsupervised learning, in the form of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 C. T. Sari , C. Sokmensuer , C. Gunduz-Demir

Many wireless vision applications, such as autonomous driving, require preservation of global structural information rather than only per-pixel fidelity. However, existing Deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) schemes mainly optimize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Omar Erak , Omar Alhussein , Fang Fang , Sami Muhaidat

Although deep learning approaches have had tremendous success in image, video and audio processing, computer vision, and speech recognition, their applications to three-dimensional (3D) biomolecular structural data sets have been hindered…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-01 Zixuan Cang , Guo-Wei Wei

In real-world systems, the relationships and connections between components are highly complex. Real systems are often described as networks, where nodes represent objects in the system and edges represent relationships or connections…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Shen Zhang

Image segmentation is the process of partitioning an image into a set of meaningful regions according to some criteria. Hierarchical segmentation has emerged as a major trend in this regard as it favors the emergence of important regions at…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-21 Amin Fehri , Santiago Velasco-Forero , Fernand Meyer

Persistent homology has been devised as a promising tool for the topological simplification of complex data. However, it is computationally intractable for large data sets. In this work, we introduce multiresolution persistent homology for…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-04-02 Kelin Xia , Zhixiong Zhao , Guo-Wei Wei

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 is a powerful tool for characterizing the topology of a data set at various geometric scales. When applied to the description of molecular structures, persistent homology can capture the multiscale geometric features and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-07-31 Zixuan Cang , Guo-Wei Wei

Getting precise aspects of road through segmentation from remote sensing imagery is useful for many real-world applications such as autonomous vehicles, urban development and planning, and achieving sustainable development goals. Roads are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Javed Iqbal , Aliza Masood , Waqas Sultani , Mohsen Ali