arXiv:2504.05444cs.CV2025-04

用生物力学约束训练神经网络,让医学图像配准更符合组织真实变形。

Biomechanical Constraints Assimilation in Deep-Learning Image Registration: Application to sliding and locally rigid deformations

  • 基于固体力学设计正则化损失,让网络学习局部刚性、剪切和弹性变形。
  • 在胸腹腔3D影像上验证,新图像对配准时能准确泛化出不同组织的变形特性。
  • 适合需高精度生理运动建模的医学影像研究者,如肿瘤放疗或手术规划。

医学图像配准中的正则化策略常采用全局统一约束,但生物组织并非均匀结构。缺乏结构感知能力的现有方法难以捕捉空间异质的形变特征,尤其在对比度差的软硬组织区域表现不佳。为此,我们提出一种基于学习的图像配准方法,使推断的形变特性可自适应地匹配训练过的生物力学特征。具体而言,在训练中通过受固体力学启发的正则化损失,强制网络学习局部刚性位移、剪切运动或伪弹性形变。在合成及真实3D胸腹部影像上验证表明,该方法能有效泛化不同性质的机械特性,用于新图像对间的形变推断。所提方法使神经网络可直接从输入图像中推断出组织特异性形变模式,确保运动具有生物力学合理性:在硬组织中保持刚性,同时在组织自然分离区域允许可控滑动,更真实还原生理运动。代码已公开于 https://github.com/Kheil-Z/biomechanical_DLIR。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Regularization strategies in medical image registration often take a one-size-fits-all approach by imposing uniform constraints across the entire image domain. Yet biological structures are anything but regular. Lacking structural awareness, these strategies may fail to consider a panoply of spatially inhomogeneous deformation properties, which would faithfully account for the biomechanics of soft and hard tissues, especially in poorly contrasted structures. To bridge this gap, we propose a learning-based image registration approach in which the inferred deformation properties can locally adapt themselves to trained biomechanical characteristics. Specifically, we first enforce in the training process local rigid displacements, shearing motions or pseudo-elastic deformations using regularization losses inspired from the field of solid-mechanics. We then show on synthetic and real 3D thoracic and abdominal images that these mechanical properties of different nature are well generalized when inferring the deformations between new image pairs. Our approach enables neural-networks to infer tissue-specific deformation patterns directly from input images, ensuring mechanically plausible motion. These networks preserve rigidity within hard tissues while allowing controlled sliding in regions where tissues naturally separate, more faithfully capturing physiological motion. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/Kheil-Z/biomechanical_DLIR .

图像配准生物力学深度学习医学影像

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