用可学习的边缘核提升医学图像配准精度,尤其擅长处理模态差异和形变问题。
Robust Rigid and Non-Rigid Medical Image Registration Using Learnable Edge Kernels
- 基于预设边缘核加随机扰动,训练中自适应优化边缘特征提取。
- 在三种设置下均优于现有方法,非刚性配准误差降低12.3%。
- 适合需要高精度图像对齐的临床诊断与治疗规划场景。
医学图像配准对疾病诊断和治疗规划等临床与研究应用至关重要,需对不同模态、时间点或受试者的图像进行对齐。传统方法常受限于对比度差异、空间扭曲及模态特异性变化。为此,本文提出将可学习的边缘核与基于学习的刚性与非刚性配准结合。不同于传统层无偏向地学习所有特征,本方法从预设边缘检测核出发,加入随机噪声,在训练中学习最优边缘特征以适配任务。该自适应边缘检测增强了对医学影像中关键结构特征的捕捉能力。为清晰评估各组件贡献,设计四类刚性与四类非刚性配准变体。在医学院提供的数据集上,针对无颅骨去除、有颅骨去除及非刚性配准三种设置进行评估,并在两个公开数据集上验证。实验结果表明,本方法在所有条件下均持续优于现有先进方法,展现出提升多模态图像对齐与解剖结构分析的潜力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Medical image registration is crucial for various clinical and research applications including disease diagnosis or treatment planning which require alignment of images from different modalities, time points, or subjects. Traditional registration techniques often struggle with challenges such as contrast differences, spatial distortions, and modality-specific variations. To address these limitations, we propose a method that integrates learnable edge kernels with learning-based rigid and non-rigid registration techniques. Unlike conventional layers that learn all features without specific bias, our approach begins with a predefined edge detection kernel, which is then perturbed with random noise. These kernels are learned during training to extract optimal edge features tailored to the task. This adaptive edge detection enhances the registration process by capturing diverse structural features critical in medical imaging. To provide clearer insight into the contribution of each component in our design, we introduce four variant models for rigid registration and four variant models for non-rigid registration. We evaluated our approach using a dataset provided by the Medical University across three setups: rigid registration without skull removal, with skull removal, and non-rigid registration. Additionally, we assessed performance on two publicly available datasets. Across all experiments, our method consistently outperformed state-of-the-art techniques, demonstrating its potential to improve multi-modal image alignment and anatomical structure analysis.
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