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Multimodal image registration between diffusion MRI (dMRI) and T1-weighted (T1w) MRI images is a critical step for aligning diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) data with structural anatomical space. Traditional registration methods often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Xiaofan Wang , Junyi Wang , Yuqian Chen , Lauren J. O' Donnell , Fan Zhang

Mutual information (MI) is a promising candidate measure for the assessment and optimization of localization systems, as it captures nonlinear dependencies between random variables. However, the high cost of computing MI, especially for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Sven Hinderer , Manuel Buchfink , Bin Yang

Multi-modal image registration plays a critical role in precision medicine but faces challenges from non-linear intensity relationships and local optima. While deep learning models enable rapid inference, they often suffer from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Boya Wang , Ruizhe Li , Chao Chen , Xin Chen

Deformable registration consists of finding the best dense correspondence between two different images. Many algorithms have been published, but the clinical application was made difficult by the high calculation time needed to solve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Théo Estienne , Maria Vakalopoulou , Enzo Battistella , Theophraste Henry , Marvin Lerousseau , Amaury Leroy , Nikos Paragios , Eric Deutsch

Deformable image registration between Computed Tomography (CT) images and Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging is essential for many image-guided therapies. In this paper, we propose a novel translation-based unsupervised deformable image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Zhe Xu , Jie Luo , Jiangpeng Yan , Ritvik Pulya , Xiu Li , William Wells , Jayender Jagadeesan

We present a mutual information-based framework for unsupervised image-to-image translation. Our MCMI approach treats single-cycle image translation models as modules that can be used recurrently in a multi-cycle translation setting where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Xiang Xu , Megha Nawhal , Greg Mori , Manolis Savva

In this paper, we study the cross-modal image retrieval, where the inputs contain a source image plus some text that describes certain modifications to this image and the desired image. Prior work usually uses a three-stage strategy to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Chunbin Gu , Jiajun Bu , Xixi Zhou , Chengwei Yao , Dongfang Ma , Zhi Yu , Xifeng Yan

We propose a semantic similarity metric for image registration. Existing metrics like euclidean distance or normalized cross-correlation focus on aligning intensity values, giving difficulties with low intensity contrast or noise. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Steffen Czolbe , Oswin Krause , Aasa Feragen

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

Diffeomorphic deformable image registration is crucial in many medical image studies, as it offers unique, special properties including topology preservation and invertibility of the transformation. Recent deep learning-based deformable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Tony C. W. Mok , Albert C. S. Chung

Recently, action recognition has been dominated by transformer-based methods, thanks to their spatiotemporal contextual aggregation capacities. However, despite the significant progress achieved on scene-related datasets, they do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Peiqin Zhuang , Lei Bai , Yichao Wu , Ding Liang , Luping Zhou , Yali Wang , Wanli Ouyang

Conventional deformable registration methods aim at solving an optimization model carefully designed on image pairs and their computational costs are exceptionally high. In contrast, recent deep learning based approaches can provide fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Risheng Liu , Zi Li , Xin Fan , Chenying Zhao , Hao Huang , Zhongxuan Luo

Deformable image registration (DIR), aiming to find spatial correspondence between images, is one of the most critical problems in the domain of medical image analysis. In this paper, we present a novel, generic, and accurate diffeomorphic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Yifan Wu , Tom Z. Jiahao , Jiancong Wang , Paul A. Yushkevich , M. Ani Hsieh , James C. Gee

Image animation is the task of transferring the motion of a driving video to a given object in a source image. While great progress has recently been made in unsupervised motion transfer, requiring no labeled data or domain priors, many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Peirong Liu , Rui Wang , Xuefei Cao , Yipin Zhou , Ashish Shah , Ser-Nam Lim

In the past few decades, researchers have proposed many discriminant analysis (DA) algorithms for the study of high-dimensional data in a variety of problems. Most DA algorithms for feature extraction are based on transformations that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-06-12 Ali Shadvar

Feature ranking and selection is a widely used approach in various applications of supervised dimensionality reduction in discriminative machine learning. Nevertheless there exists significant evidence on feature ranking and selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Ozan Ozdenizci , Deniz Erdogmus

We introduce the Mutual Information Machine (MIM), a novel formulation of representation learning, using a joint distribution over the observations and latent state in an encoder/decoder framework. Our key principles are symmetry and mutual…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-10 Micha Livne , Kevin Swersky , David J. Fleet

Existing feature filters rely on statistical pair-wise dependence metrics to model feature-target relationships, but this approach may fail when the target depends on higher-order feature interactions rather than individual contributions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Taurai Muvunza , Egor Kraev , Pere Planell-Morell , Alexander Y. Shestopaloff

We propose learning discrete structured representations from unlabeled data by maximizing the mutual information between a structured latent variable and a target variable. Calculating mutual information is intractable in this setting. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Karl Stratos , Sam Wiseman

Mutual Information (MI) plays an important role in representation learning. However, MI is unfortunately intractable in continuous and high-dimensional settings. Recent advances establish tractable and scalable MI estimators to discover…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-05 Liangjian Wen , Yiji Zhou , Lirong He , Mingyuan Zhou , Zenglin Xu