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An Accessible Solution for Deformable Image Registration Compared with Learning-Based Approaches

Deformable image registration (DIR) is a core problem in medical image analysis; but, unlike labeling decision problems such as classification and segmentation, registration is a problem class that involves stringent physical constraints. Although deep learning methods have made faster registration possible, the resulting models are often difficult to interpret compared to hand-crafted methods with explicit objectives and interpretable physical meaning.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 18

UniReg: Conditional Unified Model for Medical Image Registration

UniReg is a conditional unified model for medical image registration that adapts deformation field estimation based on anatomical priors, registration type constraints, and instance-specific features. It combines the precision of task‑specific learning with the generalization of traditional optimization, enabling effective alignment across diverse CT and MR scenarios within a single framework. Experiments show UniReg outperforms state‑of‑the‑art learning‑based methods in accuracy while providing strong cross‑scenario generalization and reducing training cost and model redundancy.

By Zi Li, Jianpeng Zhang, Tai Ma, Tony C. W. Mok, Yan-Jie Zhou, Zeli Chen, Xianghua Ye, Le Lu, Cheng Chen, Dakai Jin
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 18

BINDER: A Latent Variable Model for Probabilistic Medical Image Registration

BINDER is a new probabilistic model for medical image registration that builds on mutual information and uses latent voxel‑wise correspondences to enable closed‑form iterative updates. The approach yields a demons‑like optimization algorithm that performs robustly on both monomodal and multimodal tasks, and a sampler that quantifies uncertainty in high‑dimensional 3D deformations. The authors provide the code on GitHub for public use.

By Stefano Cerri, Amirhossein Hassankhani, Ya\"el Balbastre, Koen Van Leemput
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 24

Recursive Uncertainty-Gated Image Registration for Learning-based Algorithms

The paper introduces Recursive Uncertainty-Gated Image Registration (RUGI), an iterative refinement method that updates deformation fields predicted by learning-based registration models using a gating map. Two gating strategies are explored: an uncertainty-based approach and an image residual error approach, both concentrating updates on difficult regions. Experiments on cardiac MRI and echocardiography datasets show that RUGI consistently improves registration accuracy, with the error-gated variant reducing MSE by 27‑37% on pretrained models and lowering ejection fraction estimation errors.

By Clara Rodrigo Gonz\'alez, Oscar Bates, Fu Siong Ng, Meng-Xing Tang
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

Test Time Adaptation Methods for Point Cloud Registration in Laparoscopic Surgery

The paper investigates test‑time adaptation (TTA) techniques for 3D point‑cloud registration in laparoscopic surgery, where synthetic training data must be adapted to noisy, sparse, and occluded real intraoperative reconstructions. It adapts three families of TTA methods—model, normalization, and input adaptation—to handle asymmetric shifts between preoperative meshes and intraoperative clouds, replacing classification‑based entropy objectives with correspondence‑based ones. Experiments on synthetic and real targets show that input adaptation consistently reduces registration error with low inference latency, making it the most promising approach for surgical applications.

By Nina Bodelot, Soufiane Belharbi, Eric Granger
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 2

Pix2Rep-v2: Data-Efficient Representation Learning for Dense Medical Imaging Applications

Pix2Rep-v2 is a self‑supervised learning framework that learns pixel‑ and voxel‑level representations for dense medical imaging tasks, using a redundancy‑reduction objective and equivariance principles to scale to 3D and wide field‑of‑view data. The method is evaluated on four datasets across multiple modalities, tasks, and backbones, demonstrating higher data‑efficiency in few‑shot scenarios and competitive performance, such as a +9.3 Dice point improvement in one‑shot segmentation on the M&Ms‑2 dataset. An in‑context dense prototype approach is also proposed, eliminating the need for downstream training.

By S. Sifaoui, E. Angelini, S. Toupin, T. Pezel, L. Le Folgoc