papers

Publications (12)

stat.ML2017

Persistent homology machine learning for fingerprint classification

Noah Giansiracusa, Robert Giansiracusa, Chul Moon

The fingerprint classification problem is to sort fingerprints into pre-determined groups, such as arch, loop, and whorl. It was asserted in the literature that minutiae points, wh…

stat.ME2023

Hypothesis Testing for Shapes using Vectorized Persistence Diagrams

Chul Moon, Nicole A. Lazar

Topological data analysis involves the statistical characterization of the shape of data. Persistent homology is a primary tool of topological data analysis, which can be used to a…

cs.CV2023

Using Persistent Homology Topological Features to Characterize Medical Images: Case Studies on Lung and Brain Cancers

Chul Moon, Qiwei Li, Guanghua Xiao

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 fr…

stat.ME2025

A survival analysis of glioma patients using topological features and locations of tumors

Yuhyeong Jang, Tu Dan, Eric Vu +1

Tumor shape plays a critical role in influencing both growth and metastasis. We introduce a novel topological radiomic feature derived from persistent homology to characterize tumo…

stat.AP2020

Discovering Clinically Meaningful Shape Features for the Analysis of Tumor Pathology Images

Esteban Fernández Morales, Cong Zhang, Guanghua Xiao +2

With the advanced imaging technology, digital pathology imaging of tumor tissue slides is becoming a routine clinical procedure for cancer diagnosis. This process produces massive…

stat.AP2026

Spatial Analysis for AI-segmented Histopathology Images: Methods and Implementation

Yoolkyu Park, Fangjiang Wu, Xin Feng +6

Quantitative characterization of cellular spatial organization is critical for understanding tumor progression and immune response. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI)…

stat.AP2025

Enhancing Empathic Accuracy: Penalized Functional Alignment Method to Correct Temporal Misalignment in Real-time Emotional Perception

Linh H Nghiem, Jing Cao, Chrystyna Kouros +1

Empathic accuracy (EA) is the ability to accurately understand another person\textquotesingle s thoughts and feelings, which is crucial for social and psychological interactions. T…

stat.ME2022

Bayesian Elastic Net based on Empirical Likelihood

Chul Moon, Adel Bedoui

We propose a Bayesian elastic net that uses empirical likelihood and develop an efficient tuning of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for posterior sampling. The proposed model relaxes the a…

stat.ME2017

Persistence Terrace for Topological Inference of Point Cloud Data

Chul Moon, Noah Giansiracusa, Nicole A. Lazar

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a rapidly developing collection of methods for studying the shape of point cloud and other data types. One popular approach, designed to be robus…

stat.AP2020

Bayesian Landmark-based Shape Analysis of Tumor Pathology Images

Cong Zhang, Guanghua Xiao, Chul Moon +2

Medical imaging is a form of technology that has revolutionized the medical field in the past century. In addition to radiology imaging of tumor tissues, digital pathology imaging,…

stat.ME2025

generalRSS: Sampling and Inference for Balanced and Unbalanced Ranked Set Sampling in R

Chul Moon, Soohyun Ahn

Ranked set sampling (RSS) is a stratified sampling method that improves efficiency over simple random sampling (SRS) by utilizing auxiliary information for ranking and stratificati…

stat.ME2022

Empirical Likelihood Inference for Area under the ROC Curve using Ranked Set Samples

Chul Moon, Xinlei Wang, Johan Lim

The area under a receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) is a useful tool to assess the performance of continuous-scale diagnostic tests on binary classification. In this art…