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Deformable image registration remains a central challenge in medical image analysis, particularly under multi-modal scenarios where intensity distributions vary significantly across scans. While deep learning methods provide efficient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Yi Zhang , Yidong Zhao , Qian Tao

Many registration problems are ill-posed in homogeneous or noisy regions, and dense voxel-wise decoders can be unnecessarily high-dimensional. A sparse control-point parameterisation provides a compact, smooth deformation representation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Wen Yan , Qianye Yang , Yipei Wang , Shonit Punwani , Mark Emberton , Vasilis Stavrinides , Yipeng Hu , Dean Barratt

Non-rigid registration is essential for Augmented Reality guided laparoscopic liver surgery by fusing preoperative information, such as tumor location and vascular structures, into the limited intraoperative view, thereby enhancing surgical…

Navigating surgical tools in the dynamic and tortuous anatomy of the lung's airways requires accurate, real-time localization of the tools with respect to the preoperative scan of the anatomy. Such localization can inform human operators or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Jake Sganga , David Eng , Chauncey Graetzel , David Camarillo

Whole abdominal organ segmentation is important in diagnosing abdomen lesions, radiotherapy, and follow-up. However, oncologists' delineating all abdominal organs from 3D volumes is time-consuming and very expensive. Deep learning-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Xiangde Luo , Wenjun Liao , Jianghong Xiao , Jieneng Chen , Tao Song , Xiaofan Zhang , Kang Li , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Guotai Wang , Shaoting Zhang

The task of classifying mammograms is very challenging because the lesion is usually small in the high resolution image. The current state-of-the-art approaches for medical image classification rely on using the de-facto method for ConvNets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Tao Wei , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero , Shuo Wang , Yuan Huang , Fiona J Gilbert , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Chang Wen Chen

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

Image registration, a critical process in medical imaging, involves aligning different sets of medical imaging data into a single unified coordinate system. Deep learning networks, such as the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ziyang Wang , Jian-Qing Zheng , Chao Ma , Tao Guo

Deformable image registration is fundamental to longitudinal and population analysis. Geometric alignment of the infant brain MR images is challenging, owing to rapid changes in image appearance in association with brain development. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Dongming Wei , Sahar Ahmad , Yunzhi Huang , Lei Ma , Zhengwang Wu , Gang Li , Li Wang , Qian Wang , Pew-Thian Yap , Dinggang Shen

Objective: Deformable brain MR image registration is challenging due to large inter-subject anatomical variation. For example, the highly complex cortical folding pattern makes it hard to accurately align corresponding cortical structures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Dongming Wei , Zhengwang Wu , Gang Li , Xiaohuan Cao , Dinggang Shen , Qian Wang

Intraoperative 2D/3D registration aligns preoperative 3D volumes with real-time 2D radiographs, enabling accurate localization of instruments and implants. A recent fully differentiable similarity learning framework approximates geodesic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Minheng Chen , Youyong Kong

Diagnosis based on medical images, such as X-ray images, often involves manual annotation of anatomical keypoints. However, this process involves significant human efforts and can thus be a bottleneck in the diagnostic process. To fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jinhee Kim , Taesung Kim , Taewoo Kim , Jaegul Choo , Dong-Wook Kim , Byungduk Ahn , In-Seok Song , Yoon-Ji Kim

Purpose: Accurate intraoperative X-ray/CT registration is essential for surgical navigation in orthopedic procedures. However, existing methods struggle with consistently achieving sub-millimeter accuracy, robustness under broad initial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Roman Flepp , Leon Nissen , Bastian Sigrist , Arend Nieuwland , Nicola Cavalcanti , Philipp Fürnstahl , Thomas Dreher , Lilian Calvet

Deep learning-based deformable registration methods have been widely investigated in diverse medical applications. Learning-based deformable registration relies on weighted objective functions trading off registration accuracy and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 Haoran Dou , Ning Bi , Luyi Han , Yuhao Huang , Ritse Mann , Xin Yang , Dong Ni , Nishant Ravikumar , Alejandro F. Frangi , Yunzhi Huang

We propose a self-supervised learning framework that uses unlabeled monocular video sequences to generate large-scale supervision for training a Visual Odometry (VO) frontend, a network which computes pointwise data associations across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Daniel DeTone , Tomasz Malisiewicz , Andrew Rabinovich

The success of deep convolutional neural networks on image classification and recognition tasks has led to new applications in very diversified contexts, including the field of medical imaging. In this paper we investigate and propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Alexey A. Novikov , Dimitrios Lenis , David Major , Jiri Hladůvka , Maria Wimmer , Katja Bühler

Deep learning based methods provide efficient solutions to medical image registration, including the challenging problem of diffeomorphic image registration. However, most methods register normal image pairs, facing difficulty handling…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-17 Ankita Joshi , Yi Hong

Subject motion in whole-body dynamic PET introduces inter-frame mismatch and seriously impacts parametric imaging. Traditional non-rigid registration methods are generally computationally intense and time-consuming. Deep learning approaches…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Xueqi Guo , Bo Zhou , David Pigg , Bruce Spottiswoode , Michael E. Casey , Chi Liu , Nicha C. Dvornek

Accurate registration of medical images is vital for doctor's diagnosis and quantitative analysis. In this paper, we propose a new deformable medical image registration method based on average geometric transformations and VoxelMorph CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Yongpei Zhu , Zicong Zhou , Guojun Liao , Kehong Yuan

Accurate segmentation of fetal brain magnetic resonance images is crucial for analyzing fetal brain development and detecting potential neurodevelopmental abnormalities. Traditional deep learning-based automatic segmentation, although…