# Dealing with Topological Information within a Fully Convolutional Neural Network

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11600 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.11600/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 27 Jun 2019.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Enforcing Morphological Information in Fully Convolutional Networks to Improve Cell Instance Segmentation in Fluorescence Microscopy Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.05843/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

A fully convolutional neural network has a receptive field of limited size and therefore cannot exploit global information, such as topological information. A solution is proposed in this paper to solve this problem, based on pre-processing with a geodesic operator. It is applied to the segmentation of histological images of pigmented reconstructed epidermis acquired via Whole Slide Imaging.