Title
S3Reg: Superfast Spherical Surface Registration Based on Deep Learning
Abstract
Cortical surface registration is an essential step and prerequisite for surface-based neuroimaging analysis. It aligns cortical surfaces across individuals and time points to establish cross-sectional and longitudinal cortical correspondences to facilitate neuroimaging studies. Though achieving good performance, available methods are either time consuming or not flexible to extend to multiple or high dimensional features. Considering the explosive availability of large-scale and multimodal brain MRI data, fast surface registration methods that can flexibly handle multimodal features are desired. In this study, we develop a Superfast Spherical Surface Registration (S3Reg) framework for the cerebral cortex. Leveraging an end-to-end unsupervised learning strategy, S3Reg offers great flexibility in the choice of input feature sets and output similarity measures for registration, and meanwhile reduces the registration time significantly. Specifically, we exploit the powerful learning capability of spherical Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to directly learn the deformation fields in spherical space and implement diffeomorphic design with “scaling and squaring” layers to guarantee topology-preserving deformations. To handle the polar-distortion issue, we construct a novel spherical CNN model using three orthogonal Spherical U-Nets. Experiments are performed on two different datasets to align both adult and infant multimodal cortical features. Results demonstrate that our S3Reg shows superior or comparable performance with state-of-the-art methods, while improving the registration time from 1 min to 10 sec.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/TMI.2021.3069645
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Adult,Cross-Sectional Studies,Deep Learning,Humans,Image Processing, Computer-Assisted,Infant,Magnetic Resonance Imaging,Neural Networks, Computer,Neuroimaging
Journal
40
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
8
0278-0062
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fenqiang Zhao194.89
Zhengwang Wu26016.97
fan wang33418.08
Weili Lin415632.78
shunren xia54410.32
Dinggang Shen67837611.27
Li Wang7105178.25
Gang Li829851.27