Biomechanics-informed Non-rigid Medical Image Registration and its Inverse Material Property Estimation with Linear and Nonlinear Elasticity

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Auteurs principaux: Min, Zhe, Baum, Zachary M. C., Saeed, Shaheer U., Emberton, Mark, Barratt, Dean C., Taylor, Zeike A., Hu, Yipeng
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author Min, Zhe
Baum, Zachary M. C.
Saeed, Shaheer U.
Emberton, Mark
Barratt, Dean C.
Taylor, Zeike A.
Hu, Yipeng
author_facet Min, Zhe
Baum, Zachary M. C.
Saeed, Shaheer U.
Emberton, Mark
Barratt, Dean C.
Taylor, Zeike A.
Hu, Yipeng
contents This paper investigates both biomechanical-constrained non-rigid medical image registrations and accurate identifications of material properties for soft tissues, using physics-informed neural networks (PINNs). The complex nonlinear elasticity theory is leveraged to formally establish the partial differential equations (PDEs) representing physics laws of biomechanical constraints that need to be satisfied, with which registration and identification tasks are treated as forward (i.e., data-driven solutions of PDEs) and inverse (i.e., parameter estimation) problems under PINNs respectively. Two net configurations (i.e., Cfg1 and Cfg2) have also been compared for both linear and nonlinear physics model. Two sets of experiments have been conducted, using pairs of undeformed and deformed MR images from clinical cases of prostate cancer biopsy. Our contributions are summarised as follows. 1) We developed a learning-based biomechanical-constrained non-rigid registration algorithm using PINNs, where linear elasticity is generalised to the nonlinear version. 2) We demonstrated extensively that nonlinear elasticity shows no statistical significance against linear models in computing point-wise displacement vectors but their respective benefits may depend on specific patients, with finite-element (FE) computed ground-truth. 3) We formulated and solved the inverse parameter estimation problem, under the joint optimisation scheme of registration and parameter identification using PINNs, whose solutions can be accurately found by locating saddle points.
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spellingShingle Biomechanics-informed Non-rigid Medical Image Registration and its Inverse Material Property Estimation with Linear and Nonlinear Elasticity
Min, Zhe
Baum, Zachary M. C.
Saeed, Shaheer U.
Emberton, Mark
Barratt, Dean C.
Taylor, Zeike A.
Hu, Yipeng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
This paper investigates both biomechanical-constrained non-rigid medical image registrations and accurate identifications of material properties for soft tissues, using physics-informed neural networks (PINNs). The complex nonlinear elasticity theory is leveraged to formally establish the partial differential equations (PDEs) representing physics laws of biomechanical constraints that need to be satisfied, with which registration and identification tasks are treated as forward (i.e., data-driven solutions of PDEs) and inverse (i.e., parameter estimation) problems under PINNs respectively. Two net configurations (i.e., Cfg1 and Cfg2) have also been compared for both linear and nonlinear physics model. Two sets of experiments have been conducted, using pairs of undeformed and deformed MR images from clinical cases of prostate cancer biopsy. Our contributions are summarised as follows. 1) We developed a learning-based biomechanical-constrained non-rigid registration algorithm using PINNs, where linear elasticity is generalised to the nonlinear version. 2) We demonstrated extensively that nonlinear elasticity shows no statistical significance against linear models in computing point-wise displacement vectors but their respective benefits may depend on specific patients, with finite-element (FE) computed ground-truth. 3) We formulated and solved the inverse parameter estimation problem, under the joint optimisation scheme of registration and parameter identification using PINNs, whose solutions can be accurately found by locating saddle points.
title Biomechanics-informed Non-rigid Medical Image Registration and its Inverse Material Property Estimation with Linear and Nonlinear Elasticity
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03292