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most citedImage analysis for Alzheimer's disease prediction: Embracing pathological hallmarks for model architecture design

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16 papers

cs.CV2026

Topology of a Smile: Persistent Homology in Dental Imaging

Leon Dahlmeier, Sara Kališnik, Albert Mehl +1

CBCT (Cone Beam Computed Tomography) scans provide detailed three-dimensional images, widely used in dentistry for diagnostic and treatment planning tasks. While invaluable, analyz…

cs.LG2026

Comparing Chatbot Performance Enhanced with Persistent Homology

Nithisha Raghavaraju, Barbara Giunti, Bastian Rieck

Chatbots have become increasingly prevalent across various domains, offering automated assistance in many areas, especially mental health support. The training is done using extrem…

cs.LG2025

LEAP: Local ECT-Based Learnable Positional Encodings for Graphs

Juan Amboage, Ernst Röell, Patrick Schnider +1

Graph neural networks (GNNs) largely rely on the message-passing paradigm, where nodes iteratively aggregate information from their neighbors. Yet, standard message passing neural…

cs.LG2025

Molecular Machine Learning Using Euler Characteristic Transforms

Victor Toscano-Duran, Florian Rottach, Bastian Rieck

The shape of a molecule determines its physicochemical and biological properties. However, it is often underrepresented in standard molecular representation learning approaches. He…

cs.LG2025

Graph and Simplicial Complex Prediction Gaussian Process via the Hodgelet Representations

Mathieu Alain, So Takao, Xiaowen Dong +2

Predicting the labels of graph-structured data is crucial in scientific applications and is often achieved using graph neural networks (GNNs). However, when data is scarce, GNNs su…

cs.LG2025

Principal Curvatures Estimation with Applications to Single Cell Data

Yanlei Zhang, Lydia Mezrag, Xingzhi Sun +6

The rapidly growing field of single-cell transcriptomic sequencing (scRNAseq) presents challenges for data analysis due to its massive datasets. A common method in manifold learnin…

cs.CV2024

Point Cloud Synthesis Using Inner Product Transforms

Ernst Röell, Bastian Rieck

Point cloud synthesis, i.e. the generation of novel point clouds from an input distribution, remains a challenging task, for which numerous complex machine learning models have bee…

cs.LG2024

Topology meets Machine Learning: An Introduction using the Euler Characteristic Transform

Bastian Rieck

This overview article makes the case for how topological concepts can enrich research in machine learning. Using the Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT), a geometrical-topological…

cs.LG2024

Graph Classification Gaussian Processes via Hodgelet Spectral Features

Mathieu Alain, So Takao, Xiaowen Dong +2

The problem of classifying graphs is ubiquitous in machine learning. While it is standard to apply graph neural networks or graph kernel methods, Gaussian processes can be employed…

cs.LG2024

Diss-l-ECT: Dissecting Graph Data with Local Euler Characteristic Transforms

Julius von Rohrscheidt, Bastian Rieck

The Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT) is an efficiently-computable geometrical-topological invariant that characterizes the global shape of data. In this paper, we introduce the…

cs.LG2024

MANTRA: The Manifold Triangulations Assemblage

Rubén Ballester, Ernst Röell, Daniel Bīn Schmid +4

The rising interest in leveraging higher-order interactions present in complex systems has led to a surge in more expressive models exploiting higher-order structures in the data,…

cs.LG2024

CliquePH: Higher-Order Information for Graph Neural Networks through Persistent Homology on Clique Graphs

Davide Buffelli, Farzin Soleymani, Bastian Rieck

Graph neural networks have become the default choice by practitioners for graph learning tasks such as graph classification and node classification. Nevertheless, popular graph neu…

math.AT2024

Persistent Homology via Ellipsoids

Niklas Canova, Sara Kališnik, Aaron Moser +2

Persistent homology is one of the most popular methods in topological data analysis. An initial step in its use involves constructing a nested sequence of simplicial complexes. The…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

The Manifold Density Function: An Intrinsic Method for the Validation of Manifold Learning

Benjamin Holmgren, Eli Quist, Jordan Schupbach +2

We introduce the manifold density function, which is an intrinsic method to validate manifold learning techniques. Our approach adapts and extends Ripley's -function, and catego…

eess.IV2021

Interpretability Aware Model Training to Improve Robustness against Out-of-Distribution Magnetic Resonance Images in Alzheimer's Disease Classification

Merel Kuijs, Catherine R. Jutzeler, Bastian Rieck +1

Owing to its pristine soft-tissue contrast and high resolution, structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is widely applied in neurology, making it a valuable data source for ima…

cs.LG2020★ 4 cited

Image analysis for Alzheimer's disease prediction: Embracing pathological hallmarks for model architecture design

Sarah C. Brüningk, Felix Hensel, Catherine R. Jutzeler +1

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with local (e.g. brain tissue atrophy) and global brain changes (loss of cerebral connectivity), which can be detected by high-resolution str…