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Deformable image registration is a critical technology in medical image analysis, with broad applications in clinical practice such as disease diagnosis, multi-modal fusion, and surgical navigation. Traditional methods often rely on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-04 Zhengyong Huang , Xingwen Sun , Xuting Chang , Ning Jiang , Yao Wang , Jianfei Sun , Hongbin Han , Yao Sui

Deformable image registration, i.e., the task of aligning multiple images into one coordinate system by non-linear transformation, serves as an essential preprocessing step for neuroimaging data. Recent research on deformable image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Yao Su , Xin Dai , Lifang He , Xiangnan Kong

We explore different curriculum learning methods for training convolutional neural networks on the task of deformable pairwise 3D medical image registration. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to attempt to improve performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Mihail Burduja , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Image registration is an essential process for aligning features of interest from multiple images. With the recent development of deep learning techniques, image registration approaches have advanced to a new level. In this work, we present…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Ruixiong Wang , Alin Achim , Renata Raele-Rolfe , Qiao Tong , Dylan Bergen , Chrissy Hammond , Stephen Cross

Learning-based techniques have significantly improved the accuracy and speed of deformable image registration. However, challenges such as reducing computational complexity and handling large deformations persist. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Xiang Chen , Renjiu Hu , Jinwei Zhang , Yuxi Zhang , Xinyao Yu , Min Liu , Yaonan Wang , Hang Zhang

Deep learning technologies have dramatically reshaped the field of medical image registration over the past decade. The initial developments, such as regression-based and U-Net-based networks, established the foundation for deep learning in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-04 Junyu Chen , Yihao Liu , Shuwen Wei , Zhangxing Bian , Shalini Subramanian , Aaron Carass , Jerry L. Prince , Yong Du

Deep Learning (DL) requires a large amount of training data to provide quality outcomes. However, the field of medical imaging suffers from the lack of sufficient data for properly training DL models because medical images require manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Laith Alzubaidi , J. Santamaría , Mohamed Manoufali , Beadaa Mohammed , Mohammed A. Fadhel , Jinglan Zhang , Ali H. Al-Timemy , Omran Al-Shamma , Ye Duan

We present VoxelMorph, a fast learning-based framework for deformable, pairwise medical image registration. Traditional registration methods optimize an objective function for each pair of images, which can be time-consuming for large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Guha Balakrishnan , Amy Zhao , Mert R. Sabuncu , John Guttag , Adrian V. Dalca

Diffeomorphic image registration is a fundamental step in medical image analysis, owing to its capability to ensure the invertibility of transformations and preservation of topology. Currently, unsupervised learning-based registration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jiong Wu , Shuang Zhou , Li Lin , Xin Wang , Wenxue Tan

Image registration is a process of aligning two or more images of same objects using geometric transformation. Most of the existing approaches work on the assumption of location invariance. These approaches require object-centric images to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Deepak Mishra , Rajeev Ranjan , Santanu Chaudhury , Mukul Sarkar , Arvinder Singh Soin

Recent successes in deep learning based deformable image registration (DIR) methods have demonstrated that complex deformation can be learnt directly from data while reducing computation time when compared to traditional methods. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Sharib Ali , Jens Rittscher

Deformable image registration is fundamental for many medical image analyses. A key obstacle for accurate image registration lies in image appearance variations such as the variations in texture, intensities, and noise. These variations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Mingyuan Meng , Lei Bi , Michael Fulham , David Dagan Feng , Jinman Kim

This paper presents a review of deep learning (DL) based medical image registration methods. We summarized the latest developments and applications of DL-based registration methods in the medical field. These methods were classified into…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-02 Yabo Fu , Yang Lei , Tonghe Wang , Walter J. Curran , Tian Liu , Xiaofeng Yang

This paper introduces Quicksilver, a fast deformable image registration method. Quicksilver registration for image-pairs works by patch-wise prediction of a deformation model based directly on image appearance. A deep encoder-decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Xiao Yang , Roland Kwitt , Martin Styner , Marc Niethammer

We propose a supervised nonrigid image registration method, trained using artificial displacement vector fields (DVF), for which we propose and compare three network architectures. The artificial DVFs allow training in a fully supervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-28 Hessam Sokooti , Bob de Vos , Floris Berendsen , Mohsen Ghafoorian , Sahar Yousefi , Boudewijn P. F. Lelieveldt , Ivana Isgum , Marius Staring

The majority of deep learning (DL) based deformable image registration methods use convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to estimate displacement fields from pairs of moving and fixed images. This, however, requires the convolutional kernels…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Yihao Liu , Lianrui Zuo , Shuo Han , Yuan Xue , Jerry L. Prince , Aaron Carass

Adaptive radiotherapy (ART), especially online ART, effectively accounts for positioning errors and anatomical changes. One key component of online ART is accurately and efficiently delineating organs at risk (OARs) and targets on online…

Registration of brain MRI images requires to solve a deformation field, which is extremely difficult in aligning intricate brain tissues, e.g., subcortical nuclei, etc. Existing efforts resort to decomposing the target deformation field…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-27 Jinxin Lv , Zhiwei Wang , Hongkuan Shi , Haobo Zhang , Sheng Wang , Yilang Wang , Qiang Li

Registration is a fundamental task in medical robotics and is often a crucial step for many downstream tasks such as motion analysis, intra-operative tracking and image segmentation. Popular registration methods such as ANTs and NiftyReg…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Wentao Zhu , Yufang Huang , Daguang Xu , Zhen Qian , Wei Fan , Xiaohui Xie

Medical image challenges have played a transformative role in advancing the field, catalyzing innovation and establishing new performance benchmarks. Image registration, a foundational task in neuroimaging, has similarly advanced through…