Legouhy, Antoine; Callaghan, Ross; Azadbakht, Hojjat; Zhang, Hui; (2023) POLAFFINI: Efficient Feature-Based Polyaffine Initialization for Improved Non-linear Image Registration. In: Frangi, A and DeBruijne, M and Wassermann, D and Navab, N, (eds.) Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI 2023). (pp. 614-625). Springer, Cham: Cham, Switzerland.

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Abstract

This paper presents an efficient feature-based approach to initialize non-linear image registration. Today, nonlinear image registration is dominated by methods relying on intensity-based similarity measures. A good estimate of the initial transformation is essential, both for traditional iterative algorithms and for recent one-shot deep learning (DL)-based alternatives. The established approach to estimate this starting point is to perform affine registration, but this may be insufficient due to its parsimonious, global, and non-bending nature. We propose an improved initialization method that takes advantage of recent advances in DL-based segmentation techniques able to instantly estimate fine-grained regional delineations with state-of-the-art accuracies. Those segmentations are used to produce local, anatomically grounded, feature-based affine matchings using iteration-free closed-form expressions. Estimated local affine transformations are then fused, with the log-Euclidean polyaffine framework, into an overall dense diffeomorphic transformation. We show that, compared to its affine counterpart, the proposed initialization leads to significantly better alignment for both traditional and DL-based non-linear registration algorithms. The proposed approach is also more robust and significantly faster than commonly used affine registration algorithms such as FSL FLIRT.

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