Abstract
Current approaches for deformable medical image registration often struggle to fulfill all of the following criteria: versatile applicability, small computation or training times, and the being able to estimate large deformations. Furthermore, end-to-end networks for supervised training of registration often become overly complex and difficult to train. For the Learn2Reg2021 challenge, we aim to address these issues by decoupling feature learning and geometric alignment. First, we introduce a new very fast and accurate optimisation method. By using discretised displacements and a coupled convex optimisation procedure, we are able to robustly cope with large deformations. With the help of an Adam-based instance optimisation, we achieve very accurate registration performances and by using regularisation, we obtain smooth and plausible deformation fields. Second, to be versatile for different registration tasks, we extract hand-crafted features that are modality and contrast invariant and complement them with semantic features from a task-specific segmentation U-Net. With our results we were able to achieve the overall Learn2Reg2021 challenge’s second place, winning Task 1 and being second and third in the other two tasks.
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Siebert, H., Hansen, L., Heinrich, M.P. (2022). Fast 3D Registration with Accurate Optimisation and Little Learning for Learn2Reg 2021. In: Aubreville, M., Zimmerer, D., Heinrich, M. (eds) Biomedical Image Registration, Domain Generalisation and Out-of-Distribution Analysis. MICCAI 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13166. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97281-3_25
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