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Main Authors: Ma, Mingrui, Wang, Tao, Song, Lei, Wang, Weijie, Liu, Guixia
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Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04236
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author Ma, Mingrui
Wang, Tao
Song, Lei
Wang, Weijie
Liu, Guixia
author_facet Ma, Mingrui
Wang, Tao
Song, Lei
Wang, Weijie
Liu, Guixia
contents The Swin transformer has recently attracted attention in medical image analysis due to its computational efficiency and long-range modeling capability. Owing to these properties, the Swin Transformer is suitable for establishing more distant relationships between corresponding voxels in different positions in complex abdominal image registration tasks. However, the registration models based on transformers combine multiple voxels into a single semantic token. This merging process limits the transformers to model and generate coarse-grained spatial information. To address this issue, we propose Recovery Feature Resolution Network (RFRNet), which allows the transformer to contribute fine-grained spatial information and rich semantic correspondences to higher resolution levels. Furthermore, shifted window partitioning operations are inflexible, indicating that they cannot perceive the semantic information over uncertain distances and automatically bridge the global connections between windows. Therefore, we present a Weighted Window Attention (WWA) to build global interactions between windows automatically. It is implemented after the regular and cyclic shift window partitioning operations within the Swin transformer block. The proposed unsupervised deformable image registration model, named RFR-WWANet, detects the long-range correlations, and facilitates meaningful semantic relevance of anatomical structures. Qualitative and quantitative results show that RFR-WWANet achieves significant improvements over the current state-of-the-art methods. Ablation experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the RFRNet and WWA designs. Our code is available at \url{https://github.com/MingR-Ma/RFR-WWANet}.
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spellingShingle RFR-WWANet: Weighted Window Attention-Based Recovery Feature Resolution Network for Unsupervised Image Registration
Ma, Mingrui
Wang, Tao
Song, Lei
Wang, Weijie
Liu, Guixia
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The Swin transformer has recently attracted attention in medical image analysis due to its computational efficiency and long-range modeling capability. Owing to these properties, the Swin Transformer is suitable for establishing more distant relationships between corresponding voxels in different positions in complex abdominal image registration tasks. However, the registration models based on transformers combine multiple voxels into a single semantic token. This merging process limits the transformers to model and generate coarse-grained spatial information. To address this issue, we propose Recovery Feature Resolution Network (RFRNet), which allows the transformer to contribute fine-grained spatial information and rich semantic correspondences to higher resolution levels. Furthermore, shifted window partitioning operations are inflexible, indicating that they cannot perceive the semantic information over uncertain distances and automatically bridge the global connections between windows. Therefore, we present a Weighted Window Attention (WWA) to build global interactions between windows automatically. It is implemented after the regular and cyclic shift window partitioning operations within the Swin transformer block. The proposed unsupervised deformable image registration model, named RFR-WWANet, detects the long-range correlations, and facilitates meaningful semantic relevance of anatomical structures. Qualitative and quantitative results show that RFR-WWANet achieves significant improvements over the current state-of-the-art methods. Ablation experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the RFRNet and WWA designs. Our code is available at \url{https://github.com/MingR-Ma/RFR-WWANet}.
title RFR-WWANet: Weighted Window Attention-Based Recovery Feature Resolution Network for Unsupervised Image Registration
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04236