通过解剖结构分区与分治网络,实现无需标签的医学图像精准配准。
Deformable Medical Image Registration with Effective Anatomical Structure Representation and Divide-and-Conquer Network
- 用高斯混合模型提取关键解剖区域,实现有效结构表征。
- 分治网络独立对各区域配准,提升整体精度与形变控制。
- 在脑、心脏等多类影像上表现优异,适合临床应用需求。
有效表征感兴趣区域(ROI)并独立对齐这些区域,可显著提升可变形医学图像配准(DMIR)性能。然而现有基于学习的方法存在局限:无监督方法忽略ROI表征,直接配对图像;弱监督方法则过度依赖标签约束。为此,本文提出一种新型基于ROI的配准方法EASR-DCN。首先利用高斯混合模型进行强度分析,以多个具有不同强度特性的有效ROI表征图像;进一步设计一种新的分治网络(DCN),通过独立通道处理各ROI,学习其特征对应关系,最终无缝融合生成完整位移场。在三个MRI和一个CT数据集上进行大量实验,结果表明EASR-DCN在精度与形变抑制方面均优于基线方法。相比VoxelMorph,EASR-DCN在脑部MRI、心脏MRI和海马体MRI上的Dice分数分别提升10.31%、13.01%和5.75%,展现出良好的临床应用潜力。代码将在论文接受后公开。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Effective representation of Regions of Interest (ROI) and independent alignment of these ROIs can significantly enhance the performance of deformable medical image registration (DMIR). However, current learning-based DMIR methods have limitations. Unsupervised techniques disregard ROI representation and proceed directly with aligning pairs of images, while weakly-supervised methods heavily depend on label constraints to facilitate registration. To address these issues, we introduce a novel ROI-based registration approach named EASR-DCN. Our method represents medical images through effective ROIs and achieves independent alignment of these ROIs without requiring labels. Specifically, we first used a Gaussian mixture model for intensity analysis to represent images using multiple effective ROIs with distinct intensities. Furthermore, we propose a novel Divide-and-Conquer Network (DCN) to process these ROIs through separate channels to learn feature alignments for each ROI. The resultant correspondences are seamlessly integrated to generate a comprehensive displacement vector field. Extensive experiments were performed on three MRI and one CT datasets to showcase the superior accuracy and deformation reduction efficacy of our EASR-DCN. Compared to VoxelMorph, our EASR-DCN achieved improvements of 10.31\% in the Dice score for brain MRI, 13.01\% for cardiac MRI, and 5.75\% for hippocampus MRI, highlighting its promising potential for clinical applications. The code for this work will be released upon acceptance of the paper.
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