arXiv:2512.23142cs.CV2025-12

深度配准模型抗域偏移,靠的是局部特征而非整体外观。

Domain-Shift Immunity in Deep Deformable Registration via Local Feature Representations

  • 用预训练特征提取器分离特征与变形估计,实现跨域鲁棒性。
  • 单数据集训练的UniReg在多模态下表现媲美传统优化方法。
  • 早期卷积层的模态偏差是模型失效主因,局部特征更稳定。

深度学习已显著提升可变形图像配准的精度与效率,超越传统优化方法。然而,学习型模型常被认为对域偏移敏感,现有研究多依赖大规模多样化数据集提升鲁棒性,却未揭示其内在机制。本文表明,域偏移免疫是深度可变形配准模型的固有属性,源于其依赖局部特征而非全局外观进行形变估计。为此,我们提出UniReg——一种通用配准框架,通过固定预训练特征提取器与UNet型形变网络解耦特征提取与形变估计。尽管仅在单一数据集上训练,UniReg仍展现出媲美优化方法的跨域与多模态性能。分析进一步显示,传统CNN模型在模态变化下的失败源于早期卷积层中的数据集诱导偏差。该发现确认局部特征一致性是学习型可变形配准鲁棒性的核心驱动因素,为设计保留域不变局部特征的主干网络提供了新方向。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Deep learning has advanced deformable image registration, surpassing traditional optimization-based methods in both accuracy and efficiency. However, learning-based models are widely believed to be sensitive to domain shift, with robustness typically pursued through large and diverse training datasets, without explaining the underlying mechanisms. In this work, we show that domain-shift immunity is an inherent property of deep deformable registration models, arising from their reliance on local feature representations rather than global appearance for deformation estimation. To isolate and validate this mechanism, we introduce UniReg, a universal registration framework that decouples feature extraction from deformation estimation using fixed, pre-trained feature extractors and a UNet-based deformation network. Despite training on a single dataset, UniReg exhibits robust cross-domain and multi-modal performance comparable to optimization-based methods. Our analysis further reveals that failures of conventional CNN-based models under modality shift originate from dataset-induced biases in early convolutional layers. These findings identify local feature consistency as the key driver of robustness in learning-based deformable registration and motivate backbone designs that preserve domain-invariant local features.

图像配准域偏移局部特征深度学习

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