arXiv Computer Vision

FlexiMIND: Combined Pretrained Vision Features and Local Structure for Training-Free Deformable Medical Image Registration

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 25

When Misalignment Becomes Supervision: Structured Label Noise in Supervised Synthetic CT Generation

The paper examines how residual misalignments from registration procedures introduce structured label noise in supervised synthetic CT (sCT) generation. It shows that voxel‑wise metrics are heavily influenced by the consistency between training and evaluation registrations, and that training with anatomically consistent registrations reduces variability and improves robustness. Introducing a perceptual loss based on a pretrained Segment Anything encoder yields sharper, more anatomically coherent sCT and highlights the need for anatomy‑oriented evaluation.

By Valentin Boussot, Cedric Hemon, Caroline Lafond, Jean-Claude Nunes, Jean-Louis Dillenseger
arXiv AI
Oct 28

Learning Where to Trust: Reliability-Guided Expert Routing and Velocity Gating for 3D Deformable Registration

ReliMorph is a novel 3D deformable registration framework that integrates correspondence reliability with spatial expert routing and residual velocity gating. By using local correlation distributions to assess match ambiguity, the method guides expert fusion and velocity updates during coarse‑to‑fine refinement, with inverse‑inconsistency feedback refining decisions at finer levels. Experiments show that ReliMorph consistently improves anatomical overlap over competing methods in both unimodal and multimodal registration tasks.

By Chenyu Guo, Wenjie Dai, Yiqian Chang, Zhiyuan Zhang, Yunfan Wei, Shuhan Qi
arXiv AI
Oct 19

Really Need Recursion? Revisiting One-pass Registration with Multi-level Multi-space Contextual Guidance

The paper introduces M2CG, a one-pass deformable image registration network that replaces recursive refinement with multi-level, multi-space contextual guidance. M2CG performs progressive pyramid registration within a single iteration, leveraging cues from previous, current, and subsequent steps across image, image feature, segmentation, and segmentation feature spaces. It achieves state‑of‑the‑art results on eight public medical datasets in both unsupervised and semi‑supervised settings, challenging the prevailing reliance on recursive architectures.

By Yue Lin, Shenghai Wu, Mingyuan Meng