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Poster

Adaptive Correspondence Scoring for Unsupervised Medical Image Registration

Xiaoran Zhang · John C. Stendahl · Lawrence H. Staib · Albert J. Sinusas · Alex Wong · James S. Duncan

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Wed 2 Oct 1:30 a.m. PDT — 3:30 a.m. PDT

Abstract:

We propose an adaptive training scheme for unsupervised medical image registration. Existing methods rely on image reconstruction as the primary supervision signal. However, nuisance variables (e.g. noise and covisibility) often cause the loss of correspondence between medical images, violating the Lambertian assumption in physical waves (e.g. ultrasound) and consistent image acquisition. As the unsupervised learning scheme relies on intensity constancy between images to establish correspondence for reconstruction, this introduces spurious error residuals that are not modeled by the typical training objective. To mitigate this, we propose an adaptive framework that re-weights the error residuals with a correspondence scoring map during training, preventing the parametric displacement estimator from drifting away due to noisy gradients, which leads to performance degradation. To illustrate the versatility and effectiveness of our method, we tested our framework on three representative registration architectures across three medical image datasets along with other baselines. Our adaptive framework consistently outperforms other methods both quantitatively and qualitatively. Paired t-tests show that our improvements are statistically significant. Code available at: \url{https://anonymous.4open.science/r/AdaCS-E8B4/}.

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