arXiv Machine Learning

Structured SIR: Efficient and Expressive Importance-Weighted Inference for High-Dimensional Image Registration

arXiv:2603. 17415v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Image registration is an ill-posed dense vision task, where multiple solutions achieve similar loss values, motivating probabilistic inference.

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 Machine Learning
Aug 26

It depends: Incorporating correlations for joint aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties of high-dimensional output spaces

arXiv:2608.24518v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) plays a vital role in enhancing the reliability of deep learning model predictions, especially in scenarios with high-d...

By Leonhard F. Feiner, Manuel Nickel, Martin Menten, Laurin Lux, Rickmer Braren, Daniel Rueckert, Georgios Kaissis, Raphael Rehms, Johannes Paetzold
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 AI
Aug 7

DistMedVL: Distributional Vision-Language Alignment for Uncertainty-Aware Medical Image Segmentation

arXiv:2608. 05683v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-modal alignment of visual and textual representations is fundamental to multimodal medical image understanding, yet remains hindered by uncertainty in both modalities under real-world clinical conditions.

By Jiaxuan Li, Qing Xu, Xiangjian He, Yue Li, Daokun Zhang, Fiseha B. Tesema, Rong Qu