CoRe: Joint Optimization with Contrastive Learning for Medical Image Registration
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| author | Kats, Eytan Grossbroehmer, Christoph Hemidi, Ziad Al-Haj Falta, Fenja Heyer, Wiebke Heinrich, Mattias P. |
| author_facet | Kats, Eytan Grossbroehmer, Christoph Hemidi, Ziad Al-Haj Falta, Fenja Heyer, Wiebke Heinrich, Mattias P. |
| contents | Medical image registration is a fundamental task in medical image analysis, enabling the alignment of images from different modalities or time points. However, intensity inconsistencies and nonlinear tissue deformations pose significant challenges to the robustness of registration methods. Recent approaches leveraging self-supervised representation learning show promise by pre-training feature extractors to generate robust anatomical embeddings, that farther used for the registration. In this work, we propose a novel framework that integrates equivariant contrastive learning directly into the registration model. Our approach leverages the power of contrastive learning to learn robust feature representations that are invariant to tissue deformations. By jointly optimizing the contrastive and registration objectives, we ensure that the learned representations are not only informative but also suitable for the registration task. We evaluate our method on abdominal and thoracic image registration tasks, including both intra-patient and inter-patient scenarios. Experimental results demonstrate that the integration of contrastive learning directly into the registration framework significantly improves performance, surpassing strong baseline methods. |
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| spellingShingle | CoRe: Joint Optimization with Contrastive Learning for Medical Image Registration Kats, Eytan Grossbroehmer, Christoph Hemidi, Ziad Al-Haj Falta, Fenja Heyer, Wiebke Heinrich, Mattias P. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Medical image registration is a fundamental task in medical image analysis, enabling the alignment of images from different modalities or time points. However, intensity inconsistencies and nonlinear tissue deformations pose significant challenges to the robustness of registration methods. Recent approaches leveraging self-supervised representation learning show promise by pre-training feature extractors to generate robust anatomical embeddings, that farther used for the registration. In this work, we propose a novel framework that integrates equivariant contrastive learning directly into the registration model. Our approach leverages the power of contrastive learning to learn robust feature representations that are invariant to tissue deformations. By jointly optimizing the contrastive and registration objectives, we ensure that the learned representations are not only informative but also suitable for the registration task. We evaluate our method on abdominal and thoracic image registration tasks, including both intra-patient and inter-patient scenarios. Experimental results demonstrate that the integration of contrastive learning directly into the registration framework significantly improves performance, surpassing strong baseline methods. |
| title | CoRe: Joint Optimization with Contrastive Learning for Medical Image Registration |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23694 |