Tell2Reg: Establishing spatial correspondence between images by the same language prompts

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Autori principali: Yan, Wen, Yang, Qianye, Huang, Shiqi, Wang, Yipei, Punwani, Shonit, Emberton, Mark, Stavrinides, Vasilis, Hu, Yipeng, Barratt, Dean
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author Yan, Wen
Yang, Qianye
Huang, Shiqi
Wang, Yipei
Punwani, Shonit
Emberton, Mark
Stavrinides, Vasilis
Hu, Yipeng
Barratt, Dean
author_facet Yan, Wen
Yang, Qianye
Huang, Shiqi
Wang, Yipei
Punwani, Shonit
Emberton, Mark
Stavrinides, Vasilis
Hu, Yipeng
Barratt, Dean
contents Spatial correspondence can be represented by pairs of segmented regions, such that the image registration networks aim to segment corresponding regions rather than predicting displacement fields or transformation parameters. In this work, we show that such a corresponding region pair can be predicted by the same language prompt on two different images using the pre-trained large multimodal models based on GroundingDINO and SAM. This enables a fully automated and training-free registration algorithm, potentially generalisable to a wide range of image registration tasks. In this paper, we present experimental results using one of the challenging tasks, registering inter-subject prostate MR images, which involves both highly variable intensity and morphology between patients. Tell2Reg is training-free, eliminating the need for costly and time-consuming data curation and labelling that was previously required for this registration task. This approach outperforms unsupervised learning-based registration methods tested, and has a performance comparable to weakly-supervised methods. Additional qualitative results are also presented to suggest that, for the first time, there is a potential correlation between language semantics and spatial correspondence, including the spatial invariance in language-prompted regions and the difference in language prompts between the obtained local and global correspondences. Code is available at https://github.com/yanwenCi/Tell2Reg.git.
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spellingShingle Tell2Reg: Establishing spatial correspondence between images by the same language prompts
Yan, Wen
Yang, Qianye
Huang, Shiqi
Wang, Yipei
Punwani, Shonit
Emberton, Mark
Stavrinides, Vasilis
Hu, Yipeng
Barratt, Dean
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Image and Video Processing
00B25
I.2.7
Spatial correspondence can be represented by pairs of segmented regions, such that the image registration networks aim to segment corresponding regions rather than predicting displacement fields or transformation parameters. In this work, we show that such a corresponding region pair can be predicted by the same language prompt on two different images using the pre-trained large multimodal models based on GroundingDINO and SAM. This enables a fully automated and training-free registration algorithm, potentially generalisable to a wide range of image registration tasks. In this paper, we present experimental results using one of the challenging tasks, registering inter-subject prostate MR images, which involves both highly variable intensity and morphology between patients. Tell2Reg is training-free, eliminating the need for costly and time-consuming data curation and labelling that was previously required for this registration task. This approach outperforms unsupervised learning-based registration methods tested, and has a performance comparable to weakly-supervised methods. Additional qualitative results are also presented to suggest that, for the first time, there is a potential correlation between language semantics and spatial correspondence, including the spatial invariance in language-prompted regions and the difference in language prompts between the obtained local and global correspondences. Code is available at https://github.com/yanwenCi/Tell2Reg.git.
title Tell2Reg: Establishing spatial correspondence between images by the same language prompts
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Image and Video Processing
00B25
I.2.7
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03118