Neural Operators for Biomedical Spherical Heterogeneity

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03561v3
• Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:50:22 GMT
• Title: Neural Operators for Biomedical Spherical Heterogeneity
• Authors: Hao Tang, Hao Chen, Hao Li, Chao Li,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a designable Green's function framework (DGF) to provide new spherical operator solution strategy.<n>Based on DGF, we propose Green's-Function Spherical Neural Operator (GSNO) fusing 3 operator solutions.<n>GSNO can adapt to real-world heterogeneous systems with nuisance variability and anisotropy.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Spherical deep learning has been widely applied to a broad range of real-world problems. Existing approaches often face challenges in balancing strong spherical geometric inductive biases with the need to model real-world heterogeneity. To solve this while retaining spherical geometry, we first introduce a designable Green's function framework (DGF) to provide new spherical operator solution strategy: Design systematic Green's functions under rotational group. Based on DGF, to model biomedical heterogeneity, we propose Green's-Function Spherical Neural Operator (GSNO) fusing 3 operator solutions: (1) Equivariant Solution derived from Equivariant Green's Function for symmetry-consistent modeling; (2) Invariant Solution derived from Invariant Green's Function to eliminate nuisance heterogeneity, e.g., consistent background field; (3) Anisotropic Solution derived from Anisotropic Green's Function to model anisotropic systems, especially fibers with preferred direction. Therefore, the resulting model, GSNO can adapt to real-world heterogeneous systems with nuisance variability and anisotropy while retaining spectral efficiency. Evaluations on spherical MNIST, Shallow Water Equation, diffusion MRI fiber prediction, cortical parcellation and molecule structure modeling demonstrate the superiority of GSNO.

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