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Medical image registration is a critical component of clinical imaging workflows, enabling accurate longitudinal assessment, multi-modal data fusion, and image-guided interventions. Intensity-based approaches often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Eytan Kats , Mattias P. Heinrich

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

In 3D medical image segmentation, small targets segmentation is crucial for diagnosis but still faces challenges. In this paper, we propose the Axis Projection Attention UNet, named APAUNet, for 3D medical image segmentation, especially for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Yuncheng Jiang , Zixun Zhang , Shixi Qin , Yao Guo , Zhen Li , Shuguang Cui

Deep learning has achieved tremendous success in computer vision, while medical image segmentation (MIS) remains a challenge, due to the scarcity of data annotations. Meta-learning techniques for few-shot segmentation (Meta-FSS) have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Qianqian Shen , Yanan Li , Jiyong Jin , Bin Liu

Reliable and accurate registration of patient-specific brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans containing pathologies is challenging due to tissue appearance changes. This paper describes our contribution to the Registration of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Ramy A. Zeineldin , Mohamed E. Karar , Franziska Mathis-Ullrich , Oliver Burgert

We propose LiftReg, a 2D/3D deformable registration approach. LiftReg is a deep registration framework which is trained using sets of digitally reconstructed radiographs (DRR) and computed tomography (CT) image pairs. By using simulated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Lin Tian , Yueh Z. Lee , Raúl San José Estépar , Marc Niethammer

Recent works on Multimodal 3D Computer-aided diagnosis have demonstrated that obtaining a competitive automatic diagnosis model when a 3D convolution neural network (CNN) brings more parameters and medical images are scarce remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Yin Dai , Yifan Gao , Fayu Liu , Jun Fu

Medical image segmentation plays a pivotal role in automated diagnostic and treatment planning systems. In this work, we present DAUNet, a novel lightweight UNet variant that integrates Deformable V2 Convolutions and Parameter-Free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Adnan Munir , Muhammad Shahid Jabbar , Shujaat Khan

Medical imaging plays a crucial role in modern healthcare by providing non-invasive visualisation of internal structures and abnormalities, enabling early disease detection, accurate diagnosis, and treatment planning. This study aims to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Walid Ehab , Yongmin Li

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

An effective backbone network is important to deep learning-based Deformable Medical Image Registration (DMIR), because it extracts and matches the features between two images to discover the mutual correspondence for fine registration.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Jiacheng Shi , Yuting He , Youyong Kong , Jean-Louis Coatrieux , Huazhong Shu , Guanyu Yang , Shuo Li

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

Accurate medical image segmentation is critical for disease quantification and treatment evaluation. While traditional Unet architectures and their transformer-integrated variants excel in automated segmentation tasks. However, they lack…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Guanqun Sun , Yizhi Pan , Weikun Kong , Zichang Xu , Jianhua Ma , Teeradaj Racharak , Le-Minh Nguyen , Junyi Xin

Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) has one of the highest rates of recurrence cases among solid malignancies. Recurrence rates can be reduced by improving positive margins localization. Frozen section analysis (FSA) of resected…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Qingyun Yang , Fangjie Li , Jiayi Xu , Zixuan Liu , Sindhura Sridhar , Whitney Jin , Jennifer Du , Jon Heiselman , Michael Miga , Michael Topf , Jie Ying Wu

Automated fetal head segmentation in ultrasound images is critical for accurate biometric measurements in prenatal care. While existing deep learning approaches have achieved a reasonable performance, they struggle with issues like low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ammar Bhilwarawala , Mainak Bandyopadhyay

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in medical image analysis, however its adoption in clinical practice is limited by a lack of interpretability. These models often make correct predictions without explaining their reasoning.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-03 Jhonatan Contreras , Thomas Bocklitz

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 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

The correlation of optical measurements with a correct pathology label is often hampered by imprecise registration caused by deformations in histology images. This study explores an automated multi-modal image registration technique…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Lianne Feenstra , Maud Lambregts , Theo J. M Ruers , Behdad Dashtbozorg

Parametric spatial transformation models have been successfully applied to image registration tasks. In such models, the transformation of interest is parameterized by a fixed set of basis functions as for example B-splines. Each basis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Robin Sandkühler , Simon Andermatt , Grzegorz Bauman , Sylvia Nyilas , Christoph Jud , Philippe C. Cattin