Title
Multi-scale Neural ODEs for 3D Medical Image Registration
Abstract
Image registration plays an important role in medical image analysis. Conventional optimization based methods provide an accurate estimation due to the iterative process at the cost of expensive computation. Deep learning methods such as learn-to-map are much faster but either iterative or coarse-to-fine approach is required to improve accuracy for handling large motions. In this work, we proposed to learn a registration optimizer via a multi-scale neural ODE model. The inference consists of iterative gradient updates similar to a conventional gradient descent optimizer but in a much faster way, because the neural ODE learns from the training data to adapt the gradient efficiently at each iteration. Furthermore, we proposed to learn a modal-independent similarity metric to address image appearance variations across different image contrasts. We performed evaluations through extensive experiments in the context of multi-contrast 3D MR images from both public and private data sources and demonstrate the superior performance of our proposed methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/978-3-030-87202-1_21
MEDICAL IMAGE COMPUTING AND COMPUTER ASSISTED INTERVENTION - MICCAI 2021, PT IV
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Multi-modal image registration, Neural ordinary differential equations, Disentangled representation, Self-supervised learning
Conference
12904
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Junshen Xu111.70
Eric Z. Chen200.68
Xiao Chen311.37
Terrence Chen442.46
Shanhui Sun59511.82