A machine learning method predicts rock permeability from 3D images.
problem Efficiently predict permeability of heterogeneous rocks for planetary and robotic applications.
method Machine learning guided 3D properties recognition of rock morphology from 3D micro CT and MRI images.
result The morphology decoder method accurately predicts permeability from 3D images.
Generative model calibrates 3D battery cathode morphologies from 2D images.
problem Calibrate 3D morphologies of all-solid-state battery cathodes from 2D microscopy images.
method Combining GANs with excursion sets of Gaussian random fields.
result Calibrated digital twins enable systematic exploration of morphological scenarios.
Deep learning algorithms for connectomics rely upon localized classification, rather than overall morphology. This leads to a high incidence of erroneously merged objects. Humans, by contrast, can easily detect such errors by acquiring intuition for the correct morphology of objects. Biological neurons have complicated…
DISPR uses diffusion models to predict 3D cell shapes from 2D images.
problem Predicting 3D cell shapes from 2D microscopy images.
method Diffusion model trained to predict 3D shapes from 2D microscopy images as a prior.
result Adding DISPR predictions to minority cell classes improves classification accuracy.
GraphDINO learns neuronal morphologies from unlabeled data.
problem Unsupervised learning of neuronal morphologies from unlabeled data.
method Transformer-based approach with novel attention mechanism and data augmentation.
result GraphDINO yields morphological clusterings on par with expert classification.
A method for a single policy to solve various tasks across diverse agent morphologies.
problem Generalizing a single policy to solve various tasks across diverse agent morphologies.
method Unified representation and behavior distillation using a morphology-task graph and Transformer architecture.
result Improves multi-task performances compared to baselines, suggesting a promising approach.
We introduce a novel approach for predicting the progression of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis from 3D spine models reconstructed from biplanar X-ray images. Recent progress in machine learning have allowed to improve classification and prognosis rates, but lack a probabilistic framework to measure uncertainty in the …
3D CNNs interpret brain MRI differences between men and women.
problem Interpreting 3D CNNs for voxel-wise brain MRI analysis.
method Three interpretation methods: Meaningful Perturbations, Grad CAM, and Guided Backpropagation.
result Voxel-wise 3D CNN interpretation of brain MRI data.
Human brain development is rapid during infancy and early childhood. Many disease processes impair this development. Therefore, brain developmental age estimation (BDAE) is essential for all diseases affecting cognitive development. Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of infants shows brain growth and morphologic pa…
Paper proposes efficient co-adaptation of robot morphology and behavior.
problem Infeasibility of co-adapting morphology and behavior in robots due to long manufacturing times and need for new controllers.
method Uses deep reinforcement learning, specifically the soft actor critic algorithm, to automatically and efficiently co-adapt robot morphology and behavior.
result Reduces the number of morphologies and behaviors tested, making co-adaptation more data-efficient.
Paper proposes a method to control robots of different shapes efficiently.
problem Learning optimal control policies for robots of various shapes is challenging.
method Hierarchical architecture with hypernetworks and fixed attention mechanism.
result Method improves learning performance and generalizes to unseen morphologies.
Investigates training challenges for morphological neural networks.
problem Training morphological neural networks with gradient descent is difficult.
method Examines differentiation and backpropagation for morphological networks, using Bouligand derivative.
result Provides theoretical insights and guidelines for initialization and learning rates.
Paper proposes a new method to optimize robot body structure and control policy.
problem Optimizing robot body structure and control policy in a coupled manner.
method Revisits co-design problem as a Stackelberg game, incorporating control adaptation dynamics.
result Stackelberg PPO outperforms standard PPO in stability and performance.
Morphological neurons, that is morphological operators such as dilation and erosion with learnable structuring elements, have intrigued researchers for quite some time because of the power these operators bring to the table despite their simplicity. These operators are known to be powerful nonlinear tools, but for a gi…
Morphology in unbalanced languages remains a big challenge in the context of machine translation. In this paper, we propose to de-couple machine translation from morphology generation in order to better deal with the problem. We investigate the morphology simplification with a reasonable trade-off between expected gain…
Improved prediction of polymer morphology through machine learning and simulations.
problem Understanding and predicting the morphology of multi-component polymer blends.
method Modified Cahn-Hilliard model for simulations, machine learning for clustering and prediction.
result Machine learning achieved ≥ 90% accuracy in predicting polymer morphology. Hierarchical decoupling improves sample efficiency for complex robots.
problem Learning long-range behaviors on complex robots.
method Two-part policy: low-level imitation and high-level transfer, with KL regularization.
result Hierarchical transfer significantly improves zero-shot high-level transfer and stabilizes learning.
New method shows ignoring morphological graph info improves reinforcement learning performance.
problem Improving reinforcement learning performance in incompatible environments.
method Transformer-based approach (Amorpheus) that ignores morphological graph information.
result Transformer-based approach outperforms GNN-based methods that use morphological information.
Paper introduces ℓ-DER for regression tasks using morphological operators and convex-concave procedure.
problem Developing a universal approximator for regression tasks.
method Introduces ℓ-DER model, trains it using a convex-concave procedure (CCP) to minimize least-squares. result Outperforms other hybrid morphological models and state-of-the-art approaches.
The paper uses 3D shapes to reveal sundial design adjustments based on latitude.
problem Identifying sundial design adjustments based on installation location.
method Shape analysis in a high-dimensional space, regression in shape space.
result Sundial design adjustments were latitude-dependent.
Automates galaxy morphology classification with less human labelling.
problem Insufficient human-labeled galaxy images for accurate classification.
method Developed a VAE with equivariant transformer layers and a classifier network.
result Improves accuracy with fewer labels and unlabelled data.
Geometric models improve feature extraction and equivariance in image generation.
problem Improving feature extraction at multiscale levels and reducing network complexity.
method Proposes a geometric generative model based on morphological PDEs and GANs, incorporating equivariance for geometric interpretability.
result Preliminary results show GM-GAN outperforms classical GANs on MNIST data.
We present a conditional generative model to learn variation in cell and nuclear morphology and the location of subcellular structures from microscopy images. Our model generalizes to a wide range of subcellular localization and allows for a probabilistic interpretation of cell and nuclear morphology and structure loca…
A crucial challenge in image-based modeling of biomedical data is to identify trends and features that separate normality and pathology. In many cases, the morphology of the imaged object exhibits continuous change as it deviates from normality, and thus a generative model can be trained to model this morphological con…
Machine learning for ASD diagnosis using morphological MRI networks.
problem Challenging to diagnose ASD using MRI due to heterogeneity and incomplete network neuroscience.
method Crowdsourced Kaggle competition to develop and benchmark ML pipelines.
result First-ranked team achieved 70% accuracy, 72.5% sensitivity, and 67.5% specificity.
Measuring the morphological parameters of galaxies is a key requirement for studying their formation and evolution. Surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have resulted in the availability of very large collections of images, which have permitted population-wide analyses of galaxy morphology. Morphological…
A flexible machine learning model infers the morphology of the Galactic Center Excess.
problem Inferring the unknown morphology of the Galactic Center Excess using Fermi gamma-ray data.
method Used a Gaussian process (GP) to model the Galactic Center Excess (GCE) as a flexible, non-parametric machine learning model.
result The best-fit GP contains morphological features not typically associated with traditional GCE studies, such as a localized bright source and a diagonal arm.
Paper shows equivalence between MM and PH for n-D Morse functions.
problem Relationship between Mathematical Morphology and Persistent Homology.
method Examined pairing of extrema in Morse functions using dynamics and persistence.
result Equivalence proven between dynamics and persistence on n-D Morse functions.
Deep learning improves cancer report classification accuracy.
problem Automatically assigning ICD-O3 codes to cancer reports.
method State-of-the-art deep learning techniques, including hierarchical and flat models, with attention mechanisms.
result Best model achieves 90.3% accuracy on topography site assignment and 84.8% on morphology type assignment.
The paper presents a method for analyzing shape graphs using specific features.
problem Analyzing geometric and topological variations in shape graphs.
method Curated set of topological, geometric, and directional features for shape graph analysis.
result The feature representation is effective for tasks like group comparison and classification.
This study examines cores within superclusters, highlighting their transitional nature and dynamical state.
problem Understanding the morphology and dynamical properties of cores within superclusters.
method Projected and radial velocity distributions of galaxies, morphological analysis, entropy and mass estimates.
result Cores are transitional structures that evolve towards virialisation but remain gravitationally bound.
Proves a tree of shapes for n-D images in optimal time.
problem Proving the mathematical structure of tree of shapes in n-D images.
method Optimal quasi-linear time algorithm for computing the tree of shapes.
result The tree of shapes is the self-dual morphological hierarchical structure of n-D gray-level images.
This paper addresses the issue of building a part-based representation of a dataset of images. More precisely, we look for a non-negative, sparse decomposition of the images on a reduced set of atoms, in order to unveil a morphological and interpretable structure of the data. Additionally, we want this decomposition to…
New model reduces bias in cosmic shear measurements.
problem Bias in cosmic shear measurements due to non-well-defined ellipticity.
method Hybrid physical and deep learning Hierarchical Bayesian Model.
result Unbiased estimate of shear on realistic galaxies.
This paper introduces a model of environmental acoustic scenes which adopts a morphological approach by ab-stracting temporal structures of acoustic scenes. To demonstrate its potential, this model is employed to evaluate the performance of a large set of acoustic events detection systems. This model allows us to expli…
Study connects hyperbolic geometry to membrane shapes.
problem Understanding the shapes of biological membranes.
method Relates geometry of hyperbolic space to Helfrich model.
result Establishes a connection between membrane shapes and hyperbolic geometry.
Paper introduces r-DEP classifier for binary classification tasks.
problem No natural ordering for feature patterns in practical situations.
method Introduces reduced dilation-erosion (r-DEP) classifier using multi-valued mathematical morphology.
result r-DEP classifiers outperform traditional SVCs in balanced accuracy.
Herein, we present a system for hyperspectral image segmentation that utilizes multiple class--based denoising autoencoders which are efficiently trained. Moreover, we present a novel hyperspectral data augmentation method for labelled HSI data using linear mixtures of pixels from each class, which helps the system wit…
The performance of an organic photovoltaic device is intricately connected to its active layer morphology. This connection between the active layer and device performance is very expensive to evaluate, either experimentally or computationally. Hence, designing morphologies to achieve higher performances is non-trivial …
Greek POS Tagger and Entity Recognizer built using spaCy.
problem Developing a machine learning model for Greek language POS tagging and named entity recognition.
method Machine learning approach with spaCy platform, focusing on morphological features and token classification.
result The Greek spaCy platform improved performance in part-of-speech tagging and named entity recognition.
New models improve morpheme segmentation in low-resource languages.
problem Improving morpheme segmentation in low-resource languages.
method Two new models: LSTM pointer-generator and sequence-to-sequence with hard monotonic attention.
result Novel models outperform existing ones by up to 11.4% accuracy in low-resource settings.
Purpose: Conventional automated segmentation of the head anatomy in MRI distinguishes different brain and non-brain tissues based on image intensities and prior tissue probability maps (TPM). This works well for normal head anatomies, but fails in the presence of unexpected lesions. Deep convolutional neural networks l…
Contemporary sensorimotor learning approaches typically start with an existing complex agent (e.g., a robotic arm), which they learn to control. In contrast, this paper investigates a modular co-evolution strategy: a collection of primitive agents learns to dynamically self-assemble into composite bodies while also lea…
SPACE models complex scenes by decomposing objects and backgrounds.
problem Scalability and unsupervised object-oriented scene representation learning.
method Generative latent variable model combining spatial-attention and scene-mixture approaches.
result SPACE achieves factorized object representations and decomposes complex scenes.
Neural Machine Translation (MT) has reached state-of-the-art results. However, one of the main challenges that neural MT still faces is dealing with very large vocabularies and morphologically rich languages. In this paper, we propose a neural MT system using character-based embeddings in combination with convolutional…
Transfer learning methods for reinforcement learning (RL) domains facilitate the acquisition of new skills using previously acquired knowledge. The vast majority of existing approaches assume that the agents have the same design, e.g. same shape and action spaces. In this paper we address the problem of transferring pr…
Unified policy controls diverse agents through modular neural networks.
problem Learning control policies for various agent morphologies.
method Shared Modular Policies (SMP) with decentralized control and message passing.
result A single modular policy controls multiple agent morphologies.
C2G-Net improves image classification of similar objects like cells.
problem Classifying images with many similar objects efficiently and interpretably.
method Combines image compression and a CNN with reduced parameters.
result C2G-Net achieves similar accuracy to conventional CNNs but with reduced training time and improved interpretability.