Topological representations of binary digital images usually take into consideration different adjacency types between ...

Background Cardiovascular diseases (CVD), including coronary heart disease (CHD), display a higher prevalence in men than ...

The purpose of this work is to advance in the computational study of connectome graphs from a topological point of view. ...

Given an nD digital image I based on cubical n-xel, to fully characterize the degree of internal topological dissimilarity ...

A novel, flexible (non-unique) and topologically consistent representation called CRIT (Contour-Region incidence Tree) for ...

A new algorithm for computing the α-tree hierarchical repre sentation of a grey-scale digital image is presented here. The ...

Introduction A distinctive gut microbiome have been linked to type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). We aimed to evaluate whether ...

Taking advantage of the topological and isotopic properties of binary digital images, we present here anew algorithm for ...

Gonadal steroids strongly contribute to the metabolic programming that shapes the susceptibility to the manifestation of ...

In this paper we develop a new computational technique called boundary scale-space theory. This tech- nique is based on ...

Aging is associated with a decline in sex hormones, variable between sexes, that has an impact on many different body ...

Segmentations of a digital object based on a connectivity criterion at n-xel or sub-n-xel level are useful tools in image ...

In this paper we design a new family of relations between (co)homology classes, working with coefficients in a field and ...

Background Ectopic pregnancy is a life-threatening condition for which novel screening tools that would enable early ...

In this paper, the concept of homogeneity is defined, from a topological perspective, in order to analyze how uniform is ...

Given a 3D binary digital image I, we define and compute an edge-weighted tree, called Homological Region Tree (or ...

Connected component labeling (CCL) of binary images is one of the fundamental operations in real time applications. The ...

Scope: Dysbiosis of gut microbiota is involved in metabolic syndrome (MetS) development, which has a different incidence ...

Circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) have been proposed as type 2 diabetes biomarkers, and they may be a more sensitive way to ...

Being able to estimate a patient’s progress in the course of Alzheimer’s disease and predicting future progression based ...

Image processing is a fundamental operation in many real time applications, where lots of parallelism can be extracted. ...

The paper analyzes the connectivity information (more precisely, numbers of tunnels and their homological (co)cycle ...

The estimation of disease progression in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) based on a vector of quantitative biomarkers is of high ...

This paper analyses the topological information of a digital object O under a combined combinatorial-algebraic point of ...

One of the main problems of the existing methods for the segmentation of cerebral vasculature is the appearance in the ...

Computing and representing topological information form an important part in many applications such as image representation ...

A 2D topology-based digital image processing framework is presented here. This framework consists of the computation of a ...

Morse theory is a fundamental tool for analyzing the geometry and topology of smooth manifolds. This tool was translated ...

In this paper, we present a direct computational application of Homological Perturbation Theory (HPT, for short) to computer ...

In this paper we present a new software tool for dealing with the problem of segmentation in Digital Imagery. The ...

Triangle three-dimensional meshes have been widely used to represent 3D objects in several applications. These meshes are ...

We present here a topo–geometrical description of a subdivided nD object called homological spanning forest representation. ...

Segmentation in computer vision refers to the process of partitioning a digital image into multiple segments (sets of ...

Several features of image segmentation make it suitable for bio–inspired techniques. It can be parallelized, locally solved ...

This paper introduces a new method to rep- resent the surface of objects using two dimensional com- binatorial maps. The ...

Once a discrete Morse function has been defined on a finite cell complex, information about its homology can be deduced ...

We introduce here a new F2 homology computation algorithm based on a generalization of the spanning tree technique on a ...

In [4], given a binary 26-adjacency voxel-based digital volume V, the homological information (that related to n-dimensional ...

The homology of binary 3–dimensional digital images (digital volumes) provides concise algebraic description of their ...

High resolution image data require a huge amount of computational resources. Image pyramids have shown high performance ...

Homological characteristics of digital objects can be obtained in a straightforward manner computing an algebraic map φ ...

Given a 3D binary voxel-based digital object V, an algorithm for computing homological information for V via a polyhedral ...

Starting from an nD geometrical object, a cellular subdivision of such an object provides an algebraic counterpart from ...