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Learning Probabilistic Topological Representations Using Discrete Morse Theory

Xiaoling Hu · Dimitris Samaras · Chao Chen

Keywords: [ Deep Learning and representational learning ] [ persistent homology ] [ Topological Representation ] [ Discrete Morse Theory ]


Abstract:

Accurate delineation of fine-scale structures is a very important yet challenging problem. Existing methods use topological information as an additional training loss, but are ultimately making pixel-wise predictions. In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning based method to learn topological/structural. We use discrete Morse theory and persistent homology to construct a one-parameter family of structures as the topological/structural representation space. Furthermore, we learn a probabilistic model that can perform inference tasks in such a topological/structural representation space. Our method generates true structures rather than pixel-maps, leading to better topological integrity in automatic segmentation tasks. It also facilitates semi-automatic interactive annotation/proofreading via the sampling of structures and structure-aware uncertainty.

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