arXiv:2409.19658cs.CV2024-09

用双注意力频域融合,一步完成医学图像分割与形变配准

Dual-Attention Frequency Fusion at Multi-Scale for Joint Segmentation and Deformable Medical Image Registration

  • 多尺度双注意力频域融合模块,同步优化分割与配准特征
  • 在3个脑部MRI数据集上均超越当前最佳方法
  • 适合需要高精度配准的医学影像分析研究者

可变形医学图像配准是医学图像分析的关键任务。近年来,研究者开始利用辅助任务(如监督分割)提供解剖结构信息以应对复杂形变挑战。本文提出基于多尺度双注意力频域融合(DAFF-Net)的多任务学习框架,可在单步估计中同时获得分割掩码与密集形变场。DAFF-Net包含全局编码器、分割解码器及粗到细金字塔配准解码器。在配准解码过程中,设计了双注意力频域特征融合(DAFF)模块,在不同尺度上融合配准与分割特征,充分挖掘两任务间的关联性。该模块通过全局与局部加权机制优化特征表示,局部加权结合高低频信息,更精准捕捉配准关键特征。借助分割提供的解剖结构信息,配准学习更精确的解剖一致性,提升配准后图像的解剖保真度。此外,由于DAFF模块强大的特征提取能力,其应用拓展至无监督配准。在三个公开3D脑部MRI数据集上的大量实验表明,所提DAFF-Net及其无监督变体在多个评估指标上均优于现有先进方法,验证了该方法在可变形医学图像配准中的有效性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Deformable medical image registration is a crucial aspect of medical image analysis. In recent years, researchers have begun leveraging auxiliary tasks (such as supervised segmentation) to provide anatomical structure information for the primary registration task, addressing complex deformation challenges in medical image registration. In this work, we propose a multi-task learning framework based on multi-scale dual attention frequency fusion (DAFF-Net), which simultaneously achieves the segmentation masks and dense deformation fields in a single-step estimation. DAFF-Net consists of a global encoder, a segmentation decoder, and a coarse-to-fine pyramid registration decoder. During the registration decoding process, we design the dual attention frequency feature fusion (DAFF) module to fuse registration and segmentation features at different scales, fully leveraging the correlation between the two tasks. The DAFF module optimizes the features through global and local weighting mechanisms. During local weighting, it incorporates both high-frequency and low-frequency information to further capture the features that are critical for the registration task. With the aid of segmentation, the registration learns more precise anatomical structure information, thereby enhancing the anatomical consistency of the warped images after registration. Additionally, due to the DAFF module's outstanding ability to extract effective feature information, we extend its application to unsupervised registration. Extensive experiments on three public 3D brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) datasets demonstrate that the proposed DAFF-Net and its unsupervised variant outperform state-of-the-art registration methods across several evaluation metrics, demonstrating the effectiveness of our approach in deformable medical image registration.

医学图像图像配准多任务学习注意力机制

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