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Image registration is fundamental in medical imaging applications, such as disease progression analysis or radiation therapy planning. The primary objective of image registration is to precisely capture the deformation between two or more…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-23 Anna Reithmeir , Veronika Spieker , Vasiliki Sideri-Lampretsa , Daniel Rueckert , Julia A. Schnabel , Veronika A. Zimmer

The free-form deformation model can represent a wide range of non-rigid deformations by manipulating a control point lattice over the image. However, due to a large number of parameters, it is challenging to fit the free-form deformation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Takumi Nakane , Haoran Xie , Chao Zhang

Deformable image registration is a fundamental task in medical image analysis and plays a crucial role in a wide range of clinical applications. Recently, deep learning-based approaches have been widely studied for deformable medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-03 Jing Zou , Noémie Debroux , Lihao Liu , Jing Qin , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero

Learning non-rigid registration in an end-to-end manner is challenging due to the inherent high degrees of freedom and the lack of labeled training data. In this paper, we resolve these two challenges simultaneously. First, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Wanquan Feng , Juyong Zhang , Hongrui Cai , Haofei Xu , Junhui Hou , Hujun Bao

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

Image registration is a classical problem in machine vision which seeks methods to align discrete images of the same scene to subpixel accuracy in general situations. As with all estimation problems, the underlying difficulty is the partial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Serap A. Savari

We present a fast learning-based algorithm for deformable, pairwise 3D medical image registration. Current registration methods optimize an objective function independently for each pair of images, which can be time-consuming for large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Guha Balakrishnan , Amy Zhao , Mert R. Sabuncu , John Guttag , Adrian V. Dalca

Non-rigid registration is a crucial task with applications in medical imaging, industrial robotics, computer vision, and entertainment. Standard approaches accomplish this task using variations on the Non-Rigid Iterative Closest Point…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Gabrielle Browne , Mengfei Liu , Eitan Grinspun , Otman Benchekroun

In order to manipulate a deformable object, such as rope or cloth, in unstructured environments, robots need a way to estimate its current shape. However, tracking the shape of a deformable object can be challenging because of the object's…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Yixuan Wang , Dale McConachie , Dmitry Berenson

Noisy, partially overlapping data and the need for real-time processing pose major challenges for rigid registration. Considering that feature-based matching can handle large transformation differences but suffers from limited accuracy,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jiayi Li , Yuxin Yao , Qiuhang Lu , Juyong Zhang

Medical image registration is critical for aligning anatomical structures across imaging modalities such as computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and ultrasound. Among existing techniques, non-rigid registration (NRR)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Sneha Sree C. , Dattesh Shanbhag , Sudhanya Chatterjee

Deformable medical image registration is an essential task in computer-assisted interventions. This problem is particularly relevant to oncological treatments, where precise image alignment is necessary for tracking tumor growth, assessing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Stefano Fogarollo , Gregor Laimer , Reto Bale , Matthias Harders

This work proposes a multimodal diffeomorphic registration method using Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (Neural ODEs). Nonrigid registration algorithms exhibit tradeoffs between their accuracy, the computational complexity of their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Salvador Rodriguez-Sanz , Monica Hernandez

Deformable image registration is able to achieve fast and accurate alignment between a pair of images and thus plays an important role in many medical image studies. The current deep learning (DL)-based image registration approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Xinke Ma , Yibo Yang , Yong Xia , Dacheng Tao

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

Non-Rigid Structure-from-Motion (NRSfM) problem aims to recover 3D geometry of a deforming object from its 2D feature correspondences across multiple frames. Classical approaches to this problem assume a small number of feature points and,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Suryansh Kumar , Luc Van Gool , Carlos E. P. de Oliveira , Anoop Cherian , Yuchao Dai , Hongdong Li

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to solve the 3D non-rigid registration problem from RGB images using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Our objective is to find a deformation field (typically used for transferring knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Diego Rodriguez , Florian Huber , Sven Behnke

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

Deformable image registration poses a challenging problem where, unlike most deep learning tasks, a complex relationship between multiple coordinate systems has to be considered. Although data-driven methods have shown promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Vasiliki Sideri-Lampretsa , Nil Stolt-Ansó , Huaqi Qiu , Julian McGinnis , Wenke Karbole , Martin Menten , Daniel Rueckert

A novel non-rigid image registration algorithm is built upon fully convolutional networks (FCNs) to optimize and learn spatial transformations between pairs of images to be registered in a self-supervised learning framework. Different from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Hongming Li , Yong Fan