arXiv:2511.03826q-bio.QMcs.AI2025-11被引 1

CORE实现多染色组织切片的细胞级精准配准,提升病理分析精度。

CORE -- A Cell-Level Coarse-to-Fine Image Registration Engine for Multi-stain Image Alignment

  • 分阶段配准:先粗后细,利用组织掩码和特征匹配定位关键区域
  • 在三个公开及两个私有数据集上均超越现有方法,配准精度显著提升
  • 适合高分辨率病理图像分析,尤其适用于荧光与明场显微图像对齐

全切片图像(WSI)的精确高效配准对多染色组织切片的高分辨率、细胞核级别分析至关重要。本文提出一种新颖的粗到精框架CORE,用于跨多种模态的全切片图像(WSI)进行精确的细胞核级配准。粗配准阶段通过提示引导的组织掩码提取,有效剔除伪影和非组织区域,随后利用组织形态学与预训练特征提取器加速的密集特征匹配实现全局对齐。从粗配准后的图像中检测细胞核中心点,并采用自定义的形状感知点集配准模型进行精细刚性配准。最终,通过相干点漂移(CPD)估计非线性位移场,实现细胞级非刚性对齐。该方法依赖自动生成的细胞核信息,提升可变形配准精度,确保不同模态间的精确细胞核对应关系。在三个公开及两个私有WSI配准数据集上评估,CORE在泛化能力、精度和鲁棒性方面均优于当前最先进方法,适用于明场和免疫荧光显微镜下的全切片图像。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Accurate and efficient registration of whole slide images (WSIs) is essential for high-resolution, nuclei-level analysis in multi-stained tissue slides. We propose a novel coarse-to-fine framework CORE for accurate nuclei-level registration across diverse multimodal whole-slide image (WSI) datasets. The coarse registration stage leverages prompt-based tissue mask extraction to effectively filter out artefacts and non-tissue regions, followed by global alignment using tissue morphology and accelerated dense feature matching with a pre-trained feature extractor. From the coarsely aligned slides, nuclei centroids are detected and subjected to fine-grained rigid registration using a custom, shape-aware point-set registration model. Finally, non-rigid alignment at the cellular level is achieved by estimating a non-linear displacement field using Coherent Point Drift (CPD). Our approach benefits from automatically generated nuclei that enhance the accuracy of deformable registration and ensure precise nuclei-level correspondence across modalities. The proposed model is evaluated on three publicly available WSI registration datasets, and two private datasets. We show that CORE outperforms current state-of-the-art methods in terms of generalisability, precision, and robustness in bright-field and immunofluorescence microscopy WSIs

图像配准病理分析细胞级多模态

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