Adaptive Correspondence Scoring for Unsupervised Medical Image Registration

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Main Authors: Zhang, Xiaoran, Stendahl, John C., Staib, Lawrence, Sinusas, Albert J., Wong, Alex, Duncan, James S.
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Published: 2023
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author Zhang, Xiaoran
Stendahl, John C.
Staib, Lawrence
Sinusas, Albert J.
Wong, Alex
Duncan, James S.
author_facet Zhang, Xiaoran
Stendahl, John C.
Staib, Lawrence
Sinusas, Albert J.
Wong, Alex
Duncan, James S.
contents We propose an adaptive training scheme for unsupervised medical image registration. Existing methods rely on image reconstruction as the primary supervision signal. However, nuisance variables (e.g. noise and covisibility), violation of the Lambertian assumption in physical waves (e.g. ultrasound), and inconsistent image acquisition can all cause a loss of correspondence between medical images. As the unsupervised learning scheme relies on intensity constancy between images to establish correspondence for reconstruction, this introduces spurious error residuals that are not modeled by the typical training objective. To mitigate this, we propose an adaptive framework that re-weights the error residuals with a correspondence scoring map during training, preventing the parametric displacement estimator from drifting away due to noisy gradients, which leads to performance degradation. To illustrate the versatility and effectiveness of our method, we tested our framework on three representative registration architectures across three medical image datasets along with other baselines. Our adaptive framework consistently outperforms other methods both quantitatively and qualitatively. Paired t-tests show that our improvements are statistically significant. Code available at: \url{https://voldemort108x.github.io/AdaCS/}.
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spellingShingle Adaptive Correspondence Scoring for Unsupervised Medical Image Registration
Zhang, Xiaoran
Stendahl, John C.
Staib, Lawrence
Sinusas, Albert J.
Wong, Alex
Duncan, James S.
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
We propose an adaptive training scheme for unsupervised medical image registration. Existing methods rely on image reconstruction as the primary supervision signal. However, nuisance variables (e.g. noise and covisibility), violation of the Lambertian assumption in physical waves (e.g. ultrasound), and inconsistent image acquisition can all cause a loss of correspondence between medical images. As the unsupervised learning scheme relies on intensity constancy between images to establish correspondence for reconstruction, this introduces spurious error residuals that are not modeled by the typical training objective. To mitigate this, we propose an adaptive framework that re-weights the error residuals with a correspondence scoring map during training, preventing the parametric displacement estimator from drifting away due to noisy gradients, which leads to performance degradation. To illustrate the versatility and effectiveness of our method, we tested our framework on three representative registration architectures across three medical image datasets along with other baselines. Our adaptive framework consistently outperforms other methods both quantitatively and qualitatively. Paired t-tests show that our improvements are statistically significant. Code available at: \url{https://voldemort108x.github.io/AdaCS/}.
title Adaptive Correspondence Scoring for Unsupervised Medical Image Registration
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00837