A systematic review of the techniques for automatic segmentation of the human upper airway using volumetric images

P Maken, A Gupta, MK Gupta - Medical & Biological Engineering & …, 2023 - Springer
The human upper airway is comprised of many anatomical volumes. The obstructions in the
upper airway volumes are needed to be diagnosed which requires volumetric segmentation …

68 landmarks are efficient for 3D face alignment: what about more? 3D face alignment method applied to face recognition

M Jabberi, A Wali, BB Chaudhuri, AM Alimi - Multimedia Tools and …, 2023 - Springer
This paper proposes a 3D face alignment of 2D face images in the wild with noisy
landmarks. The objective is to recognize individuals from their single profile image. We first …

Persistent Homology-Based Machine Learning Method for Filtering and Classifying Mammographic Microcalcification Images in Early Cancer Detection

AA Malek, MA Alias, FA Razak, MSM Noorani… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The appearance of microcalcifications in mammogram images is an
essential predictor for radiologists to detect early-stage breast cancer. This study aims to …

Persistent homology for object segmentation in multidimensional grayscale images

R Assaf, A Goupil, V Vrabie, T Boudier… - Pattern Recognition …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, we develop a methodology originating from algebraic topology, and we
demonstrate its capability of performing multidimensional object segmentation without the …

Train-Free Segmentation in MRI with Cubical Persistent Homology

A François, R Tinarrage - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.01160, 2024 - arxiv.org
We describe a new general method for segmentation in MRI scans using Topological Data
Analysis (TDA), offering several advantages over traditional machine learning approaches. It …

A topology-based descriptor for 3D point cloud modeling: Theory and experiments

WJ Beksi, N Papanikolopoulos - Image and Vision Computing, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a topology-based global descriptor that allows for efficient 3D point
cloud processing tasks associated with the analysis of shapes. The descriptor is called the …

Enhancing the morphological segmentation of microscopic fossils through Localized Topology-Aware Edge Detection

Q Ge, T Richmond, B Zhong, TM Marchitto… - Autonomous …, 2021 - Springer
Fossil single-celled marine organisms known as foraminifera are widely used in
oceanographic research. The identification of species is one of the most common tasks …

Percept: a new online change-point detection method using topological data analysis

X Zheng, S Mak, L Xie, Y Xie - Technometrics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Topological data analysis (TDA) provides a set of data analysis tools for extracting
embedded topological structures from complex high-dimensional datasets. In recent years …

Topological persistence based on pixels for object segmentation in biomedical images

R Assaf, A Goupil, M Kacim… - 2017 Fourth International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we show that topological persistence can be employed in biomedical image
processing to perform object segmentation. First we model the pixels of the image by …

Signature of topologically persistent points for 3D point cloud description

WJ Beksi, N Papanikolopoulos - 2018 IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the Signature of Topologically Persistent Points (STPP), a global descriptor that
encodes topological invariants of 3D point cloud data. These topological invariants include …