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Poster

Topograph: An Efficient Graph-Based Framework for Strictly Topology Preserving Image Segmentation

Laurin Lux · Alexander H Berger · Alexander Weers · Nico Stucki · Daniel Rueckert · Ulrich Bauer · Johannes Paetzold

Hall 3 + Hall 2B #365
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Fri 25 Apr 7 p.m. PDT — 9:30 p.m. PDT

Abstract:

Topological correctness plays a critical role in many image segmentation tasks, yet most networks are trained using pixel-wise loss functions, such as Dice, neglecting topological accuracy. Existing topology-aware methods often lack robust topological guarantees, are limited to specific use cases, or impose high computational costs. In this work, we propose a novel, graph-based framework for topologically accurate image segmentation that is both computationally efficient and generally applicable. Our method constructs a component graph that fully encodes the topological information of both the prediction and ground truth, allowing us to efficiently identify topologically critical regions and aggregate a loss based on local neighborhood information. Furthermore, we introduce a strict topological metric capturing the homotopy equivalence between the union and intersection of prediction-label pairs. We formally prove the topological guarantees of our approach and empirically validate its effectiveness on binary and multi-class datasets, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance with up to fivefold faster loss computation compared to persistent homology methods.

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