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Multimodal image registration (MIR) is a fundamental procedure in many image-guided therapies. Recently, unsupervised learning-based methods have demonstrated promising performance over accuracy and efficiency in deformable image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Zhe Xu , Jiangpeng Yan , Jie Luo , Xiu Li , Jayender Jagadeesan

Medical image synthesis remains challenging due to misalignment noise during training. Existing methods have attempted to address this challenge by incorporating a registration-guided module. However, these methods tend to overlook the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Chuanpu Li , Zeli Chen , Yiwen Zhang , Liming Zhong , Wei Yang

We present deformable unsupervised medical image registration using a randomly-initialized deep convolutional neural network (CNN) as regularization prior. Conventional registration methods predict a transformation by minimizing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-05 Max-Heinrich Laves , Sontje Ihler , Tobias Ortmaier

Many applications in image-guided surgery and therapy require fast and reliable non-linear, multi-modal image registration. Recently proposed unsupervised deep learning-based registration methods have demonstrated superior performance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-07 Gerard Snaauw , Michele Sasdelli , Gabriel Maicas , Stephan Lau , Johan Verjans , Mark Jenkinson , Gustavo Carneiro

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

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

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Steffen Czolbe , Oswin Krause , Aasa Feragen

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

When dealing with the task of fine-grained scene image classification, most previous works lay much emphasis on global visual features when doing multi-modal feature fusion. In other words, models are deliberately designed based on prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Yiqun Wang , Zhao Zhou , Xiangcheng Du , Xingjiao Wu , Yingbin Zheng , Cheng Jin

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

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) aims to segment objects that blend seamlessly into complex backgrounds, with growing interest in exploiting additional visual modalities to enhance robustness through complementary information. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Hao Wang , Jiqing Zhang , Xin Yang , Baocai Yin , Lu Jiang , Zetian Mi , Huibing Wang

Unsupervised learning strategy is widely adopted by the deformable registration models due to the lack of ground truth of deformation fields. These models typically depend on the intensity-based similarity loss to obtain the learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Luyi Han , Haoran Dou , Yunzhi Huang , Pew-Thian Yap

Image registration is fundamental in medical imaging, enabling precise alignment of anatomical structures for diagnosis, treatment planning, image-guided interventions, and longitudinal monitoring. This work introduces IMPACT (Image Metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Valentin Boussot , Cédric Hémon , Jean-Claude Nunes , Jason Dowling , Simon Rouzé , Caroline Lafond , Anaïs Barateau , Jean-Louis Dillenseger

Perceiving the similarity between images has been a long-standing and fundamental problem underlying various visual generation tasks. Predominant approaches measure the inter-image distance by computing pointwise absolute deviations, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Fangneng Zhan , Jiahui Zhang , Yingchen Yu , Rongliang Wu , Shijian Lu

Deep neural networks are increasingly used for pair-wise image registration. We propose to extend current learning-based image registration to allow simultaneous registration of multiple images. To achieve this, we build upon the pair-wise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-02 Tycho F. A. van der Ouderaa , Ivana Išgum , Wouter B. Veldhuis , Bob D. de Vos

Multi-modality images have been widely used and provide comprehensive information for medical image analysis. However, acquiring all modalities among all institutes is costly and often impossible in clinical settings. To leverage more…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Qi Chang , Hui Qu , Zhennan Yan , Yunhe Gao , Lohendran Baskaran , Dimitris Metaxas

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

Multi-modality is widely used in medical imaging, because it can provide multiinformation about a target (tumor, organ or tissue). Segmentation using multimodality consists of fusing multi-information to improve the segmentation. Recently,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-17 Tongxue Zhou , Su Ruan , Stéphane Canu

Multimodal MR-US registration is critical for prostate cancer diagnosis. However, this task remains challenging due to significant modality discrepancies. Existing methods often fail to align critical boundaries while being overly sensitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xudong Ma , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Stefanos Bolomytis , Alin Achim

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