Summary of Car: Contrast-agnostic Deformable Medical Image Registration with Contrast-invariant Latent Regularization, by Yinsong Wang et al.
CAR: Contrast-Agnostic Deformable Medical Image Registration with Contrast-Invariant Latent Regularization
by Yinsong Wang, Siyi Du, Shaoming Zheng, Xinzhe Luo, Chen Qin
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Multi-contrast image registration, a challenging task due to complex intensity relationships between different imaging contrasts, can be accelerated using learning-based approaches. However, these methods are typically only applicable to fixed contrasts observed during training, limiting their generalizability. This work proposes a novel contrast-agnostic deformable image registration framework that can be generalized to arbitrary contrast images without observing them during training. The proposed framework uses a random convolution-based contrast augmentation scheme to simulate arbitrary contrasts and introduce contrast-invariant latent regularization (CLR) to regularize representation in latent space through a contrast invariance loss. Experimental results show that the proposed approach outperforms baseline methods regarding registration accuracy and possesses better generalization ability to unseen imaging contrasts. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Contrast-agnostic image registration is a new way to match images with different intensity levels. This helps doctors compare images from different machines or taken at different times. The problem is that most current methods can only work with specific types of images, not all types. The researchers found a way to make the method more flexible by mixing and matching different parts of the images during training. They also added a special trick to help the computer understand what’s important in an image, not just its intensity level. This new approach works better than previous methods and can be used with many different types of images. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Generalization » Latent space » Regularization
