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We propose a fully unsupervised multi-modal deformable image registration method (UMDIR), which does not require any ground truth deformation fields or any aligned multi-modal image pairs during training. Multi-modal registration is a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Chen Qin , Bibo Shi , Rui Liao , Tommaso Mansi , Daniel Rueckert , Ali Kamen

Multi-contrast magnetic resonance (MR) image registration is useful in the clinic to achieve fast and accurate imaging-based disease diagnosis and treatment planning. Nevertheless, the efficiency and performance of the existing registration…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-17 Weijian Huang , Hao Yang , Xinfeng Liu , Cheng Li , Ian Zhang , Rongpin Wang , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

Establishing voxelwise semantic correspondence across distinct imaging modalities is a foundational yet formidable computer vision task. Current multi-modality registration techniques maximize hand-crafted inter-domain similarity functions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Neel Dey , Jo Schlemper , Seyed Sadegh Mohseni Salehi , Bo Zhou , Guido Gerig , Michal Sofka

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) typically recruits multiple sequences (defined here as "modalities"). As each modality is designed to offer different anatomical and functional clinical information, there are evident disparities in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Chengjia Wang , Guang Yang , Giorgos Papanastasiou

Multimodal image registration is a fundamental task and a prerequisite for downstream cross-modal analysis. Despite recent progress in shared feature extraction and multi-scale architectures, two key limitations remain. First, some methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Chunlei Zhang , Jiahao Xia , Yun Xiao , Bo Jiang , Jian Zhang

Multimodal image registration (MIR) is a fundamental procedure in many image-guided therapies. Recently, unsupervised learning-based methods have demonstrated promising performance over accuracy and efficiency in deformable image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Zhe Xu , Jiangpeng Yan , Jie Luo , Xiu Li , Jayender Jagadeesan

Most of the deep learning based medical image registration algorithms focus on brain image registration tasks.Compared with brain registration, the chest CT registration has larger deformation, more complex background and region over-lap.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Cheng Wang , Qiyu Gao , Fandong Zhang , Shu Zhang , Yizhou Yu

Clinical decision making from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) combines complementary information from multiple MRI sequences (defined as 'modalities'). MRI image registration aims to geometrically 'pair' diagnoses from different…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-07 Chengjia Wang , Giorgos Papanastasiou

Data-driven deep learning approaches to image registration can be less accurate than conventional iterative approaches, especially when training data is limited. To address this whilst retaining the fast inference speed of deep learning, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xi Jia , Alexander Thorley , Wei Chen , Huaqi Qiu , Linlin Shen , Iain B Styles , Hyung Jin Chang , Ales Leonardis , Antonio de Marvao , Declan P. O'Regan , Daniel Rueckert , Jinming Duan

Multi-modal medical image segmentation plays an essential role in clinical diagnosis. It remains challenging as the input modalities are often not well-aligned spatially. Existing learning-based methods mainly consider sharing trainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Jingkun Chen , Wenqi Li , Hongwei Li , Jianguo Zhang

Image registration is the process of bringing different images into a common coordinate system - a technique widely used in various applications of computer vision, such as remote sensing, image retrieval, and, most commonly, medical…

Image registration and in particular deformable registration methods are pillars of medical imaging. Inspired by the recent advances in deep learning, we propose in this paper, a novel convolutional neural network architecture that couples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Stergios Christodoulidis , Mihir Sahasrabudhe , Maria Vakalopoulou , Guillaume Chassagnon , Marie-Pierre Revel , Stavroula Mougiakakou , Nikos Paragios

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

Deformable image registration is a crucial step in medical image analysis for finding a non-linear spatial transformation between a pair of fixed and moving images. Deep registration methods based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)…

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

In this work, we propose a self-supervised learning method for affine image registration on 3D medical images. Unlike optimisation-based methods, our affine image registration network (AIRNet) is designed to directly estimate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Evelyn Chee , Zhenzhou Wu

The correlation of optical measurements with a correct pathology label is often hampered by imprecise registration caused by deformations in histology images. This study explores an automated multi-modal image registration technique…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Lianne Feenstra , Maud Lambregts , Theo J. M Ruers , Behdad Dashtbozorg

The substantial modality-induced variations in radiometric, texture, and structural characteristics pose significant challenges for the accurate registration of multimodal images. While supervised deep learning methods have demonstrated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Xiaochen Wei , Weiwei Guo , Wenxian Yu

Recently, dense connections have attracted substantial attention in computer vision because they facilitate gradient flow and implicit deep supervision during training. Particularly, DenseNet, which connects each layer to every other layer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Jose Dolz , Karthik Gopinath , Jing Yuan , Herve Lombaert , Christian Desrosiers , Ismail Ben Ayed

Diffeomorphic deformable multi-modal image registration is a challenging task which aims to bring images acquired by different modalities to the same coordinate space and at the same time to preserve the topology and the invertibility of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Vasiliki Sideri-Lampretsa , Georgios Kaissis , Daniel Rueckert

Registration plays an important role in medical image analysis. Deep learning-based methods have been studied for medical image registration, which leverage convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for efficiently regressing a dense deformation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Xiaoru Gao , GuoYan Zheng