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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

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

Classical deformable registration techniques achieve impressive results and offer a rigorous theoretical treatment, but are computationally intensive since they solve an optimization problem for each image pair. Recently, learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Adrian V. Dalca , Guha Balakrishnan , John Guttag , Mert R. Sabuncu

Deformable image registration poses a challenging problem where, unlike most deep learning tasks, a complex relationship between multiple coordinate systems has to be considered. Although data-driven methods have shown promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Vasiliki Sideri-Lampretsa , Nil Stolt-Ansó , Huaqi Qiu , Julian McGinnis , Wenke Karbole , Martin Menten , Daniel Rueckert

In breast surgical planning, accurate registration of MR images across patient positions has the potential to improve the localisation of tumours during breast cancer treatment. While learning-based registration methods have recently become…

In this paper, we present our submission to the LUMIR25 task of Learn2Reg 2025, which ranked 1st overall on the test set. Extended from LUMIR24, this year's task focuses on zero-shot registration under domain shifts (e.g., high-field MRI,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Hengjie Liu , Yimeng Dou , Di Xu , Xinyi Fu , Dan Ruan , Ke Sheng

In this paper, we summarize the methods and experimental results we proposed for Task 2 in the learn2reg 2024 Challenge. This task focuses on unsupervised registration of anatomical structures in brain MRI images between different patients.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Yuxi Zhang , Xiang Chen , Jiazheng Wang , Min Liu , Yaonan Wang , Dongdong Liu , Renjiu Hu , Hang Zhang

This paper presents a review of deep learning (DL) based medical image registration methods. We summarized the latest developments and applications of DL-based registration methods in the medical field. These methods were classified into…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-02 Yabo Fu , Yang Lei , Tonghe Wang , Walter J. Curran , Tian Liu , Xiaofeng Yang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Stergios Christodoulidis , Mihir Sahasrabudhe , Maria Vakalopoulou , Guillaume Chassagnon , Marie-Pierre Revel , Stavroula Mougiakakou , Nikos Paragios

In this paper, we propose a deep learning approach for image registration by predicting deformation from image appearance. Since obtaining ground-truth deformation fields for training can be challenging, we design a fully convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Jingfan Fan , Xiaohuan Cao , Pew-Thian Yap , Dinggang Shen

Deformable medical image registration plays an important role in clinical diagnosis and treatment. Recently, the deep learning (DL) based image registration methods have been widely investigated and showed excellent performance in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Yibo Wang , Wen Qian , Xuming Zhang

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

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

Deformable image registration is inherently a multi-objective optimization (MOO) problem, requiring a delicate balance between image similarity and deformation regularity. These conflicting objectives often lead to poor optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yi Zhang , Yidong Zhao , Qian Tao

Diffeomorphic deformable multi-modal image registration is a challenging task which aims to bring images acquired by different modalities to the same coordinate space and at the same time to preserve the topology and the invertibility of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Vasiliki Sideri-Lampretsa , Georgios Kaissis , Daniel Rueckert

Cortical surface registration is a fundamental tool for neuroimaging analysis that has been shown to improve the alignment of functional regions relative to volumetric approaches. Classically, image registration is performed by optimizing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Mohamed A. Suliman , Logan Z. J. Williams , Abdulah Fawaz , Emma C. Robinson

Deformable registration is a crucial step in many medical procedures such as image-guided surgery and radiation therapy. Most recent learning-based methods focus on improving the accuracy by optimizing the non-linear spatial correspondence…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-05 Minh Q. Tran , Tuong Do , Huy Tran , Erman Tjiputra , Quang D. Tran , Anh Nguyen

Multimodal registration is a challenging problem in medical imaging due the high variability of tissue appearance under different imaging modalities. The crucial component here is the choice of the right similarity measure. We make a step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Martin Simonovsky , Benjamín Gutiérrez-Becker , Diana Mateus , Nassir Navab , Nikos Komodakis

The establishment of image correspondence through robust image registration is critical to many clinical tasks such as image fusion, organ atlas creation, and tumor growth monitoring, and is a very challenging problem. Since the beginning…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-01-22 Grant Haskins , Uwe Kruger , Pingkun Yan

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Chen Qin , Bibo Shi , Rui Liao , Tommaso Mansi , Daniel Rueckert , Ali Kamen