针对乳腺MRI变形配准难题,提出两阶段框架提升致密组织对齐精度。
GuidedMorph: Two-Stage Deformable Registration for Breast MRI
- 分两阶段处理:先全局结构对齐,再聚焦致密组织运动追踪
- 在ISPY2和内部数据集上,致密组织Dice提升超13.01%
- 支持无分割模型仅用图像数据,兼容多种骨干网络
不同时间点乳腺MRI的精确配准可实现解剖结构对齐与肿瘤进展追踪,有助于更有效的乳腺癌检测、诊断与治疗规划。然而,致密组织的复杂性及其高度非刚性特征给传统配准方法带来挑战,这些方法多关注整体结构对齐,忽略内部细节。为此,我们提出新型两阶段配准框架GuidedMorph,以更好对齐致密组织。除单尺度网络用于全局结构对齐外,还引入利用致密组织信息追踪乳腺运动的机制。通过双空间变换器网络(DSTN)融合学习到的形变场,提升整体配准精度。提出基于欧氏距离变换(EDT)的新扭曲方法,精确处理已配准的致密组织与乳腺掩膜,保持形变过程中的细微结构。该框架支持依赖外部分割模型与仅用图像数据两种范式,且可与VoxelMorph和TransMorph骨干网络协同工作,提供灵活解决方案。在ISPY2和内部数据集上验证,其在致密组织、整体乳腺对齐及乳腺结构相似性指数(SSIM)方面表现优异,相比最佳学习基线,致密组织Dice提升13.01%,乳腺Dice提升3.13%,乳腺SSIM提升1.21%。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Accurately registering breast MR images from different time points enables the alignment of anatomical structures and tracking of tumor progression, supporting more effective breast cancer detection, diagnosis, and treatment planning. However, the complexity of dense tissue and its highly non-rigid nature pose challenges for conventional registration methods, which primarily focus on aligning general structures while overlooking intricate internal details. To address this, we propose \textbf{GuidedMorph}, a novel two-stage registration framework designed to better align dense tissue. In addition to a single-scale network for global structure alignment, we introduce a framework that utilizes dense tissue information to track breast movement. The learned transformation fields are fused by introducing the Dual Spatial Transformer Network (DSTN), improving overall alignment accuracy. A novel warping method based on the Euclidean distance transform (EDT) is also proposed to accurately warp the registered dense tissue and breast masks, preserving fine structural details during deformation. The framework supports paradigms that require external segmentation models and with image data only. It also operates effectively with the VoxelMorph and TransMorph backbones, offering a versatile solution for breast registration. We validate our method on ISPY2 and internal dataset, demonstrating superior performance in dense tissue, overall breast alignment, and breast structural similarity index measure (SSIM), with notable improvements by over 13.01% in dense tissue Dice, 3.13% in breast Dice, and 1.21% in breast SSIM compared to the best learning-based baseline.
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