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Image registration is a fundamental requirement for medical image analysis. Deep registration methods based on deep learning have been widely recognized for their capabilities to perform fast end-to-end registration. Many deep registration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Mingyuan Meng , Lei Bi , Michael Fulham , Dagan Feng , Jinman Kim

Deformable medical image registration is a fundamental task in medical image analysis. While deep learning-based methods have demonstrated superior accuracy and computational efficiency compared to traditional techniques, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Ahsan Raza Siyal , Markus Haltmeier , Ruth Steiger , Malik Galijasevic , Elke Ruth Gizewski , Astrid Ellen Grams

The Plug-and-Play (PnP) framework was recently introduced for low-dose CT reconstruction to leverage the interpretability and the flexibility of model-based methods to incorporate various plugins, such as trained deep learning (DL) neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-16 Qifan Xu , Qihui Lyu , Dan Ruan , Ke Sheng

Fast data acquisition in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is vastly in demand and scan time directly depends on the number of acquired k-space samples. Conventional MRI reconstruction methods for fast MRI acquisition mostly relied on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-10 Ali Pour Yazdanpanah , Onur Afacan , Simon K. Warfield

Deep Learning in Image Registration (DLIR) methods have been tremendously successful in image registration due to their speed and ability to incorporate weak label supervision at training time. However, existing DLIR methods forego many of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Rohit Jena , Pratik Chaudhari , James C. Gee

Deformable image registration (DIR), aiming to find spatial correspondence between images, is one of the most critical problems in the domain of medical image analysis. In this paper, we present a novel, generic, and accurate diffeomorphic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Yifan Wu , Tom Z. Jiahao , Jiancong Wang , Paul A. Yushkevich , M. Ani Hsieh , James C. Gee

Image registration is used in many medical image analysis applications, such as tracking the motion of tissue in cardiac images, where cardiac kinematics can be an indicator of tissue health. Registration is a challenging problem for deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Benjamin Graham

Learning-based deformable image registration (DIR) accelerates alignment by amortizing traditional optimization via neural networks. Label supervision further enhances accuracy, enabling efficient and precise nonlinear alignment of unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Hang Zhang , Xiang Chen , Renjiu Hu , Rongguang Wang , Jinwei Zhang , Min Liu , Yaonan Wang , Gaolei Li , Xinxing Cheng , Jinming Duan

Purpose: Evaluating deformable image registration (DIR) algorithms is vital for enhancing algorithm performance and gaining clinical acceptance. However, there's a notable lack of dependable DIR benchmark datasets for assessing DIR…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Zhendong Zhang , Edward Robert Criscuolo , Yao Hao , Deshan Yang

Recent advances in deep learning-based medical image registration have shown that training deep neural networks~(DNNs) does not necessarily require medical images. Previous work showed that DNNs trained on randomly generated images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Junyu Chen , Shuwen Wei , Yihao Liu , Aaron Carass , Yong Du

Deep learning (DL) is increasingly used to solve ill-posed inverse problems in imaging, such as reconstruction from noisy or incomplete data, as DL offers advantages over explicit image feature extractions in defining the needed prior.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-20 Jinwei Zhang , Zhe Liu , Shun Zhang , Hang Zhang , Pascal Spincemaille , Thanh D. Nguyen , Mert R. Sabuncu , Yi Wang

Recent work has shown that the structure of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) induces a strong prior that favors natural images. This prior, known as a deep image prior (DIP), is an effective regularizer in inverse problems such as image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Pallabi Ghosh , Vibhav Vineet , Larry S. Davis , Abhinav Shrivastava , Sudipta Sinha , Neel Joshi

Cone-beam CT (CBCT)-based online adaptive radiotherapy calls for accurate auto-segmentation to reduce the time cost for physicians to edit contours. However, deep learning (DL)-based direct segmentation of CBCT images is a challenging task,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Xiao Liang , Howard Morgan , Ti Bai , Michael Dohopolski , Dan Nguyen , Steve Jiang

Image registration is a crucial task in signal processing, but it often encounters issues with stability and efficiency. Non-learning registration approaches rely on optimizing similarity metrics between fixed and moving images, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Zihao Wang , Hervé Delingette

Longitudinal image registration is challenging and has not yet benefited from major performance improvements thanks to deep-learning. Inspired by Deep Image Prior, this paper introduces a different use of deep architectures as regularizers…

Blur and noise corrupting Computed Tomography (CT) images can hide or distort small but important details, negatively affecting the diagnosis. In this paper, we present a novel gradient-based Plug-and-Play algorithm, constructed on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Pasquale Cascarano , Elena Loli Piccolomini , Elena Morotti , Andrea Sebastiani

Images taken at different times or positions undergo transformations such as rotation, scaling, skewing, and more. The process of aligning different images which have undergone transformations can be done via registration. Registration is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-27 Eduard F. Durech

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

Diffeomorphic image registration (DIR) is a fundamental task in 3D medical image analysis that seeks topology-preserving deformations between image pairs. To ensure diffeomorphism, a common approach is to model the deformation field as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Mohammadjavad Matinkia , Nilanjan Ray

Intra-fraction motion in radiotherapy is commonly modeled using deformable image registration (DIR). However, existing methods often struggle to balance speed and accuracy, limiting their applicability in clinical scenarios. This study…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-09 Xia Li , Fabian Zhang , Muheng Li , Damien Weber , Antony Lomax , Joachim Buhmann , Ye Zhang