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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…

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Registration of brain MRI images requires to solve a deformation field, which is extremely difficult in aligning intricate brain tissues, e.g., subcortical nuclei, etc. Existing efforts resort to decomposing the target deformation field…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-27 Jinxin Lv , Zhiwei Wang , Hongkuan Shi , Haobo Zhang , Sheng Wang , Yilang Wang , Qiang Li

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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Current deep learning approaches for diffusion MRI modeling circumvent the need for densely-sampled diffusion-weighted images (DWIs) by directly predicting microstructural indices from sparsely-sampled DWIs. However, they implicitly make…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-25 Mengwei Ren , Heejong Kim , Neel Dey , Guido Gerig

Clinical decision making from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) combines complementary information from multiple MRI sequences (defined as 'modalities'). MRI image registration aims to geometrically 'pair' diagnoses from different…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-07 Chengjia Wang , Giorgos Papanastasiou

Multimodal remote sensing image registration aligns images from different sensors for data fusion and analysis. However, existing methods often struggle to extract modality-invariant features when faced with large nonlinear radiometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xiaochen Wei , Weiwei Guo , Wenxian Yu , Feiming Wei , Dongying Li

Registration of diffusion MRI tractography is an essential step for analyzing group similarities and variations in the brain's white matter (WM). Streamline-based registration approaches can leverage the 3D geometric information of fiber…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Junyi Wang , Mubai Du , Ye Wu , Yijie Li , William M. Wells , Lauren J. O'Donnell , Fan Zhang

Diffusion tensor cardiac magnetic resonance (DT-CMR) is a method capable of providing non-invasive measurements of myocardial microstructure. Image registration is essential to correct image shifts due to intra and inter breath-hold motion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Fanwen Wang , Pedro F. Ferreira , Yinzhe Wu , Camila Munoz , Ke Wen , Yaqing Luo , Jiahao Huang , Dudley J. Pennell , Andrew D. Scott , Sonia Nielles-Vallespin , Guang Yang

Registration of histological and mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) allows for more precise identification of structural changes and chemical interactions in tissue. With histology and MSI having entirely different image formation processes…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Kimberley M. Bird , Xujiong Ye , Alan M. Race , James M. Brown

Magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a critical tool for neural disease diagnosis. However, long scan time greatly hinders the widespread clinical use of DTI. To accelerate image acquisition, a feature-enhanced joint…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Lang Zhang , Jinling He , Dong Liang , Hairong Zheng , Yanjie Zhu

Deformable image registration is able to achieve fast and accurate alignment between a pair of images and thus plays an important role in many medical image studies. The current deep learning (DL)-based image registration approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Xinke Ma , Yibo Yang , Yong Xia , Dacheng Tao

Establishing dense anatomical correspondence across distinct imaging modalities is a foundational yet challenging procedure for numerous medical image analysis studies and image-guided radiotherapy. Existing multi-modality image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Tony C. W. Mok , Zi Li , Yunhao Bai , Jianpeng Zhang , Wei Liu , Yan-Jie Zhou , Ke Yan , Dakai Jin , Yu Shi , Xiaoli Yin , Le Lu , Ling Zhang

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

In image registration, many efforts have been devoted to the development of alternatives to the popular normalized mutual information criterion. Concurrently to these efforts, an increasing number of works have demonstrated that substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Vincent Jaouen , Pierre-Henri Conze , Guillaume Dardenne , Julien Bert , Dimitris Visvikis

Multiparametric MRI is increasingly recommended as a first-line noninvasive approach to detect and localize prostate cancer, requiring at minimum diffusion-weighted (DWI) and T2-weighted (T2w) MR sequences. Early machine learning attempts…

Establishing reliable correspondences is crucial for all registration tasks, including 2D image registration, 3D point cloud registration, and 2D-3D image-to-point cloud registration. However, these tasks are often complicated by challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Qianliang Wu , Haobo Jiang , Yaqing Ding , Lei Luo , Jun Li , Jin Xie , Xiaojun Wu , Jian Yang

Deformable image registration is crucial for aligning medical images in a nonlinear fashion across different modalities, allowing for precise spatial correspondence between varying anatomical structures. This paper presents NestedMorph, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Gurucharan Marthi Krishna Kumar , Janine Mendola , Amir Shmuel

Conventional deformable registration methods aim at solving an optimization model carefully designed on image pairs and their computational costs are exceptionally high. In contrast, recent deep learning based approaches can provide fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Risheng Liu , Zi Li , Xin Fan , Chenying Zhao , Hao Huang , Zhongxuan Luo

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

Multi-contrast magnetic resonance (MR) image registration is useful in the clinic to achieve fast and accurate imaging-based disease diagnosis and treatment planning. Nevertheless, the efficiency and performance of the existing registration…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-17 Weijian Huang , Hao Yang , Xinfeng Liu , Cheng Li , Ian Zhang , Rongpin Wang , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang