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This paper studies the problem of image-goal navigation which involves navigating to the location indicated by a goal image in a novel previously unseen environment. To tackle this problem, we design topological representations for space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Devendra Singh Chaplot , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Abhinav Gupta , Saurabh Gupta

Deep convolutional neural networks are powerful tools for learning visual representations from images. However, designing efficient deep architectures to analyse volumetric medical images remains challenging. This work investigates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Wenqi Li , Guotai Wang , Lucas Fidon , Sebastien Ourselin , M. Jorge Cardoso , Tom Vercauteren

Shape reconstruction from imaging volumes is a recurring need in medical image analysis. Common workflows start with a segmentation step, followed by careful post-processing and,finally, ad hoc meshing algorithms. As this sequence can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Antonio Pepe , Richard Schussnig , Jianning Li , Christina Gsaxner , Dieter Schmalstieg , Jan Egger

Learning generalizable trajectory representations from raw GPS traces remains difficult because the data is continuous, noisy, and irregularly sampled. Spatial tokenization is also challenging: fine grids yield sparse cells with weak…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zhen Xiong , Shang-Ling Hsu , Cyrus Shahabi

Large language models show great potential in unstructured data understanding, but still face significant challenges with graphs due to their structural hallucination. Existing approaches mainly either verbalize graphs into natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jingyao Wu , Bin Lu , Zijun Di , Xiaoying Gan , Meng Jin , Luoyi Fu , Xinbing Wang , Chenghu Zhou

Blood vessel segmentation is a core task in medical image analysis for the care of vascular diseases and surgical planning, yet the challenges of providing expert vascular annotations pose a major obstacle for the progress of related deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Erin Rainville , Melissa Ananian , Tristan Mirolla , Hassan Rivaz , Yiming Xiao

Learning latent representations that capture both semantic and spatial information is central to efficient spatio-semantic reasoning. However, many existing approaches rely on implicit latent structures combined with dense feature maps or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 SeongMin Jin , Doo Seok Jeong

The task of parsing subcutaneous vessels in clinical images is often hindered by the high cost and limited availability of ground truth data, as well as the challenge of low contrast and noisy vessel appearances across different patients…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ayaan Nooruddin Siddiqui , Mahnoor Zaidi , Ayesha Nazneen Shahbaz , Priyadarshini Chatterjee , Krishnan Menon Iyer

Vascular graphs can embed a number of high-level features, from morphological parameters, to functional biomarkers, and represent an invaluable tool for longitudinal and cross-sectional clinical inference. This, however, is only feasible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Stefano Moriconi , Maria A. Zuluaga , H. Rolf Jager , Parashkev Nachev , Sebastien Ourselin , M. Jorge Cardoso

This paper focuses on the challenging task of learning 3D object surface reconstructions from RGB images. Existingmethods achieve varying degrees of success by using different surface representations. However, they all have their own…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Jiapeng Tang , Xiaoguang Han , Mingkui Tan , Xin Tong , Kui Jia

Accurate segmentation of tubular structures in medical images, such as vessels and airway trees, is crucial for computer-aided diagnosis, radiotherapy, and surgical planning. However, significant challenges exist in algorithm design when…

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Vessel segmentation is widely used to help with vascular disease diagnosis. Vessels reconstructed using existing methods are often not sufficiently accurate to meet clinical use standards. This is because 3D vessel structures are highly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-09 Gangming Zhao , Kongming Liang , Chengwei Pan , Fandong Zhang , Xianpeng Wu , Xinyang Hu , Yizhou Yu

Graphs are a commonly used construct for representing relationships between elements in complex high dimensional datasets. Many real-world phenomenon are dynamic in nature, meaning that any graph used to represent them is inherently…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Stephen Bonner , John Brennan , Ibad Kureshi , Georgios Theodoropoulos , Andrew Stephen McGough , Boguslaw Obara

Blood vessel networks in the brain play a crucial role in stroke research, where understanding their topology is essential for analyzing blood flow dynamics. However, extracting detailed topological vessel network information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Joël Mathys , Andreas Plesner , Jorel Elmiger , Roger Wattenhofer

The topological (or graph) structures of real-world networks are known to be predictive of multiple dynamic properties of the networks. Conventionally, a graph structure is represented using an adjacency matrix or a set of hand-crafted…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-21 Cheng Li , Xiaoxiao Guo , Qiaozhu Mei

Learning representations for graphs plays a critical role in a wide spectrum of downstream applications. In this paper, we summarize the limitations of the prior works in three folds: representation space, modeling dynamics and modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Li Sun , Zhongbao Zhang , Jiawei Zhang , Feiyang Wang , Hao Peng , Sen Su , Philip S. Yu

Generating computational anatomical models of cerebrovascular networks is vital for improving clinical practice and understanding brain oxygen transport. This is achieved by extracting graph-based representations based on pre-mapping of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-12-23 Rafat Damseh , Patrick Delafontaine-Martel , Philippe Pouliot , Farida Cheriet , Frederic Lesage

We introduce Representation Tokenizer (RepTok), a generative modeling framework that represents an image using a single continuous latent token obtained from self-supervised vision transformers. Building on a pre-trained SSL encoder, we…

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Generative modeling of anatomical structures plays a crucial role in virtual imaging trials, which allow researchers to perform studies without the costs and constraints inherent to in vivo and phantom studies. For clinical relevance,…

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