Semantic segmentation of pyramidal neuron skeletons using geometric deep learning

Neurons can be abstractly represented as skeletons due to the filament nature of neurites.With the rapid development of imaging and image analysis techniques,an increasing amount of neuron skeleton data is being produced.In some scienti fic studies,it is necessary to dissect the axons and dendrites,which is typically done manually and is both tedious and time-consuming.To automate this process,we have developed a method that relies solely on neuronal skeletons using Geometric Deep Learning(GDL).We demonstrate the effectiveness of this method using pyramidal neurons in mammalian brains,and the results are promising for its application in neuroscience studies.

A Survey of Deep Learning-Based Mesh Processing

In the past ten years,deep learning technology has achieved a great success in many fields,like computer vision and speech recognition.Recently,large-scale geometry data become more and more available,and the learned geometry priors have been successfully applied to 3D computer vision and computer graphics fields.Different from the regular representation of images,surface meshes have irregular structures with different vertex numbers and topologies.Therefore,the traditional convolution neural networks used for images cannot be directly used to handle surface meshes,and thus,many methods have been proposed to solve this problem.In this paper,we provide a comprehensive survey of existing geometric deep learning methods formesh processing.We first introduce the relevant knowledge and theoretical background of geometric deep learning and some basic mesh data knowledge,including some commonly used mesh datasets.Then,we review various deep learning models for mesh data with two different types:graph-based methods and mesh structure-based methods.We also review the deep learning-based applications for mesh data.In the final,we give some potential research directions in this field.

Deep convolutional surrogates and freedom in thermal design

A deep learning approach is presented for heat transfer and pressure drop prediction of complex fin geometries generated using composite Bézier curves.Thermal design process includes iterative high fidelity simulation which is complex,computationally expensive,and time-consuming.With the advancement in machine learning algorithms as well as Graphics Processing Units(GPUs),parallel processing architecture of GPUs can be used to accelerate thermo-fluid simulation.In this study,Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs)are used to predict results of Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD)directly from topologies saved as images.A design space with a single fin as well as multiple morphable fins are studied.A comparison of Xception network and regular CNN is presented for the case with a single fin design.Results show that high accuracy in prediction is observed for single fin design particularly using Xception network.Xception network provides 98 percent accuracy in heat transfer and pressure drop prediction of the single fin design.Increasing the design freedom to multiple fins increases the error in prediction.This error,however,remains within three percent of the ground truth values which is valuable for design purpose.The presented predictive model can be used for innovative BREP-based fin design optimization in compact and high efficiency heat exchangers.

Graph Neural Architecture Search:A Survey

In academia and industries,graph neural networks(GNNs)have emerged as a powerful approach to graph data processing ranging from node classification and link prediction tasks to graph clustering tasks.GNN models are usually handcrafted.However,building handcrafted GNN models is difficult and requires expert experience because GNN model components are complex and sensitive to variations.The complexity of GNN model components has brought significant challenges to the existing efficiencies of GNNs.Hence,many studies have focused on building automated machine learning frameworks to search for the best GNN models for targeted tasks.In this work,we provide a comprehensive review of automatic GNN model building frameworks to summarize the status of the field to facilitate future progress.We categorize the components of automatic GNN model building frameworks into three dimensions according to the challenges of building them.After reviewing the representative works for each dimension,we discuss promising future research directions in this rapidly growing field.