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Image registration is a fundamental task in medical image analysis. Recently, deep learning based image registration methods have been extensively investigated due to their excellent performance despite the ultra-fast computational time.…

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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.…

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We propose a unified deep meta-learning framework for accelerated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that jointly addresses multi-coil reconstruction and cross-modality synthesis. Motivated by the limitations of conventional methods in…

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We propose a fully unsupervised multi-modal deformable image registration method (UMDIR), which does not require any ground truth deformation fields or any aligned multi-modal image pairs during training. Multi-modal registration is a key…

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Deep Equilibrium Models (DEQs) are an established framework for image restoration that learn a problem-adapted regularization by solving a fixed-point (i.e. equilibrium) problem. While flexible and expressive, DEQs are often hindered by…

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Medical image registration is one of the key processing steps for biomedical image analysis such as cancer diagnosis. Recently, deep learning based supervised and unsupervised image registration methods have been extensively studied due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Boah Kim , Jieun Kim , June-Goo Lee , Dong Hwan Kim , Seong Ho Park , Jong Chul Ye

Diffeomorphic image registration is crucial for various medical imaging applications because it can preserve the topology of the transformation. This study introduces DCCNN-LSTM-Reg, a learning framework that evolves dynamically and learns…

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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

Data-driven deep learning approaches to image registration can be less accurate than conventional iterative approaches, especially when training data is limited. To address this whilst retaining the fast inference speed of deep learning, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xi Jia , Alexander Thorley , Wei Chen , Huaqi Qiu , Linlin Shen , Iain B Styles , Hyung Jin Chang , Ales Leonardis , Antonio de Marvao , Declan P. O'Regan , Daniel Rueckert , Jinming Duan

Image registration and in particular deformable registration methods are pillars of medical imaging. Inspired by the recent advances in deep learning, we propose in this paper, a novel convolutional neural network architecture that couples…

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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…

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Ground-based solar image restoration is a computationally expensive procedure that involves nonlinear optimization techniques. The presence of atmospheric turbulence produces perturbations in individual images that make it necessary to…

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Variational regularization methods are commonly used to approximate solutions of inverse problems. In recent years, model-based variational regularization methods have often been replaced with data-driven ones such as the fields-of-expert…

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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

Recent efforts on solving inverse problems in imaging via deep neural networks use architectures inspired by a fixed number of iterations of an optimization method. The number of iterations is typically quite small due to difficulties in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-04 Davis Gilton , Gregory Ongie , Rebecca Willett

Image registration techniques usually assume that the images to be registered are of a certain type (e.g. single- vs. multi-modal, 2D vs. 3D, rigid vs. deformable) and there lacks a general method that can work for data under all…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Quang Luong Nhat Nguyen , Ruiming Cao , Laura Waller

Deformable image registration is a critical technology in medical image analysis, with broad applications in clinical practice such as disease diagnosis, multi-modal fusion, and surgical navigation. Traditional methods often rely on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-04 Zhengyong Huang , Xingwen Sun , Xuting Chang , Ning Jiang , Yao Wang , Jianfei Sun , Hongbin Han , Yao Sui

Cascaded computation, whereby predictions are recurrently refined over several stages, has been a persistent theme throughout the development of landmark detection models. In this work, we show that the recently proposed Deep Equilibrium…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Paul Micaelli , Arash Vahdat , Hongxu Yin , Jan Kautz , Pavlo Molchanov

Deep-learning-based registration methods emerged as a fast alternative to conventional registration methods. However, these methods often still cannot achieve the same performance as conventional registration methods because they are either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Alessa Hering , Stephanie Häger , Jan Moltz , Nikolas Lessmann , Stefan Heldmann , Bram van Ginneken

Deformable medical image registration is a fundamental task in medical image analysis with applications in disease diagnosis, treatment planning, and image-guided interventions. Despite significant advances in deep learning based…

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