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Affine image registration is a cornerstone of medical image analysis. While classical algorithms can achieve excellent accuracy, they solve a time-consuming optimization for every image pair. Deep-learning (DL) methods learn a function that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-15 Malte Hoffmann , Andrew Hoopes , Douglas N. Greve , Bruce Fischl , Adrian V. Dalca

We present HyperMorph, a learning-based strategy for deformable image registration that removes the need to tune important registration hyperparameters during training. Classical registration methods solve an optimization problem to find a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Andrew Hoopes , Malte Hoffmann , Bruce Fischl , John Guttag , Adrian V. Dalca

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

Recent developments in neural networks have improved deformable image registration (DIR) by amortizing iterative optimization, enabling fast and accurate DIR results. However, learning-based methods often face challenges with limited…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-26 Hang Zhang , Yuxi Zhang , Jiazheng Wang , Xiang Chen , Renjiu Hu , Xin Tian , Gaolei Li , Min Liu

Deformable image registration is crucial for aligning medical images in a nonlinear fashion across different modalities, allowing for precise spatial correspondence between varying anatomical structures. This paper presents NestedMorph, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Gurucharan Marthi Krishna Kumar , Janine Mendola , Amir Shmuel

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

Diffeomorphic image registration, offering smooth transformation and topology preservation, is required in many medical image analysis tasks.Traditional methods impose certain modeling constraints on the space of admissible transformations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Kun Han , Shanlin sun , Xiangyi Yan , Chenyu You , Hao Tang , Junayed Naushad , Haoyu Ma , Deying Kong , Xiaohui Xie

Accurately registering breast MR images from different time points enables the alignment of anatomical structures and tracking of tumor progression, supporting more effective breast cancer detection, diagnosis, and treatment planning.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Yaqian Chen , Hanxue Gu , Haoyu Dong , Qihang Li , Yuwen Chen , Nicholas Konz , Lin Li , Maciej A. Mazurowski

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

The purpose of this study is to develop a deep learning based method that can automatically generate segmentations on cone-beam CT (CBCT) for head and neck online adaptive radiation therapy (ART), where expert-drawn contours in planning CT…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Xiao Liang , Howard Morgan , Dan Nguyen , Steve Jiang

As in other areas of medical image analysis, e.g. semantic segmentation, deep learning is currently driving the development of new approaches for image registration. Multi-scale encoder-decoder network architectures achieve state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Lasse Hansen , Mattias P. Heinrich

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

Diffeomorphic deformable image registration is one of the crucial tasks in medical image analysis, which aims to find a unique transformation while preserving the topology and invertibility of the transformation. Deep convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Ameneh Sheikhjafari , Michelle Noga , Kumaradevan Punithakumar , Nilanjan Ray

Deformable registration has been one of the pillars of biomedical image computing. Conventional approaches refer to the definition of a similarity criterion that, once endowed with a deformation model and a smoothness constraint, determines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Enzo Ferrante , Puneet K. Dokania , Rafael Marini Silva , Nikos Paragios

Image registration has traditionally been done using two distinct approaches: learning based methods, relying on robust deep neural networks, and optimization-based methods, applying complex mathematical transformations to warp images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Gabriel De Araujo , Shanlin Sun , Xiaohui Xie

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

The thickness of the cortical band is linked to various neurological and psychiatric conditions, and is often estimated through surface-based methods such as Freesurfer in MRI studies. The DiReCT method, which calculates cortical thickness…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-24 Richard McKinley , Christian Rummel

We propose a registration algorithm for 2D CT/MRI medical images with a new unsupervised end-to-end strategy using convolutional neural networks. The contributions of our algorithm are threefold: (1) We transplant traditional image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Siyuan Shan , Wen Yan , Xiaoqing Guo , Eric I-Chao Chang , Yubo Fan , Yan Xu

CT and MRI are two of the most informative modalities in spinal diagnostics and treatment planning. CT is useful when analysing bony structures, while MRI gives information about the soft tissue. Thus, fusing the information of both…

Nonlinear image registration continues to be a fundamentally important tool in medical image analysis. Diagnostic tasks, image-guided surgery and radiotherapy as well as motion analysis all rely heavily on accurate intra-patient alignment.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Mattias P. Heinrich