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Objective: Deep learning-based deformable image registration has achieved strong accuracy, but remains sensitive to variations in input image characteristics such as artifacts, field-of-view mismatch, or modality difference. We aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Yihao Liu , Junyu Chen , Lianrui Zuo , Shuwen Wei , Brian D. Boyd , Carmen Andreescu , Olusola Ajilore , Warren D. Taylor , Aaron Carass , Bennett A. Landman

Registration is a fundamental task in medical image analysis which can be applied to several tasks including image segmentation, intra-operative tracking, multi-modal image alignment, and motion analysis. Popular registration tools such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Wentao Zhu , Andriy Myronenko , Ziyue Xu , Wenqi Li , Holger Roth , Yufang Huang , Fausto Milletari , Daguang Xu

Medical imaging plays a vital role in modern diagnostics; however, interpreting high-resolution radiological data remains time-consuming and susceptible to variability among clinicians. Traditional image processing techniques often lack the…

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We present Hybrid-CSR, a geometric deep-learning model that combines explicit and implicit shape representations for cortical surface reconstruction. Specifically, Hybrid-CSR begins with explicit deformations of template meshes to obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Shanlin Sun , Thanh-Tung Le , Chenyu You , Hao Tang , Kun Han , Haoyu Ma , Deying Kong , Xiangyi Yan , Xiaohui Xie

Medical image registration is a fundamental task in medical image analysis, aiming to establish spatial correspondences between paired images. However, existing unsupervised deformable registration methods rely solely on intensity-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Hao Xu , Tengfei Xue , Jianan Fan , Dongnan Liu , Yuqian Chen , Fan Zhang , Carl-Fredrik Westin , Ron Kikinis , Lauren J. O'Donnell , Weidong Cai

Current brain surface-based prediction models often overlook the variability of regional attributes at the cortical feature level. While graph neural networks (GNNs) excel at capturing regional differences, they encounter challenges when…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-12 Zhuoshuo Li , Jiong Zhang , Youbing Zeng , Jiaying Lin , Dan Zhang , Jianjia Zhang , Duan Xu , Hosung Kim , Bingguang Liu , Mengting Liu

The advent of deep-learning-based registration networks has addressed the time-consuming challenge in traditional iterative methods.However, the potential of current registration networks for comprehensively capturing spatial relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Zhuoyuan Wang , Haiqiao Wang , Yi Wang

Medical image registration is crucial for various clinical and research applications including disease diagnosis or treatment planning which require alignment of images from different modalities, time points, or subjects. Traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Ahsan Raza Siyal , Markus Haltmeier , Ruth Steiger , Malik Galijasevic , Elke Ruth Gizewski , Astrid Ellen Grams

Deformable image registration can obtain dynamic information about images, which is of great significance in medical image analysis. The unsupervised deep learning registration method can quickly achieve high registration accuracy without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Xiao Fan , Shuxin Zhuang , Zhemin Zhuang , Ye Yuan , Shunmin Qiu , Alex Noel Joseph Raj , Yibiao Rong

Deformable registration is a fundamental task in medical image processing, aiming to achieve precise alignment by establishing nonlinear correspondences between images. Traditional methods offer good adaptability and interpretability but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jing Hu , Kaiwei Yu , Hongjiang Xian , Shu Hu , Xin Wang

The emergence of explainability methods has enabled a better comprehension of how deep neural networks operate through concepts that are easily understood and implemented by the end user. While most explainability methods have been designed…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-03-17 Fernanda L. Ribeiro , Steffen Bollmann , Ross Cunnington , Alexander M. Puckett

We propose the first fast and certifiable algorithm for the registration of two sets of 3D points in the presence of large amounts of outlier correspondences. We first reformulate the registration problem using a Truncated Least Squares…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Heng Yang , Jingnan Shi , Luca Carlone

In this paper, we propose a novel learning-based framework for 3D shape registration, which overcomes the challenges of significant non-rigid deformation and partiality undergoing among input shapes, and, remarkably, requires no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Zhangquan Chen , Puhua Jiang , Mingze Sun , Ruqi Huang

Deformable medical image registration is a crucial aspect of medical image analysis. In recent years, researchers have begun leveraging auxiliary tasks (such as supervised segmentation) to provide anatomical structure information for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Hongchao Zhou , Shunbo Hu

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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been providing the state-of-the-art performance for learning-related problems involving 2D/3D images in Euclidean space. However, unlike in the Euclidean space, the shapes of many structures in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Fenqiang Zhao , Shunren Xia , Zhengwang Wu , Dingna Duan , Li Wang , Weili Lin , John H Gilmore , Dinggang Shen , Gang Li

We propose a novel framework for the statistical analysis of genus-zero 4D surfaces, i.e., 3D surfaces that deform and evolve over time. This problem is particularly challenging due to the arbitrary parameterizations of these surfaces and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Awais Nizamani , Hamid Laga , Guanjin Wang , Farid Boussaid , Mohammed Bennamoun , Anuj Srivastava

Proton therapy offers superior organ-at-risk sparing but is highly sensitive to anatomical changes, making accurate deformable image registration (DIR) across longitudinal CT scans essential. Conventional DIR methods are often too slow for…

Soft-tissue deformation remains a major limitation in image-guided neurosurgery, where intra-operative anatomy can deviate substantially from pre-operative imaging due to brain shift, compromising navigation accuracy and surgical safety.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Eashrat Jahan Muniya , Gernot Kronreif , Ander Biguri , Wolfgang Birkfellner , Sepideh Hatamikia

Registering an object shape to a sequence of point clouds undergoing non-rigid deformation is a long-standing challenge. The key difficulties stem from two factors: (i) the presence of local minima due to the non-convexity of registration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Guangzhao He , Yuxi Xiao , Zhen Xu , Xiaowei Zhou , Sida Peng