Resumen: Topological image analysis is a powerful tool for understanding the structure and topology of images, being persistent homology one of its most popular methods. However, persistent homology requires a chain of inclusions of topological spaces, which can be challenging for digital images. In this article, we explore the use of zigzag persistence, a recent variant of traditional persistence, for digital image processing. To this end, new algorithms are developed to build a simplicial complex associated to a digital image and to compute the relationships between homology classes of a sequence of binary images via zigzag persistence. Additionally, we provide a simple software to use them. We demonstrate its effectiveness by applying it to a real-world problem of analyzing honey bee sperm videos. Idioma: Inglés DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2024.06.010 Año: 2024 Publicado en: PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS 184 (2024), 111-118 ISSN: 0167-8655 Factor impacto JCR: 3.3 (2024) Categ. JCR: COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE rank: 93 / 204 = 0.456 (2024) - Q2 - T2 Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 1.005 - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Q1) - Software (Q1) - Signal Processing (Q1) - Artificial Intelligence (Q2)