Hu, Y;
Gibson, E;
Barratt, DC;
Emberton, M;
Noble, JA;
Vercauteren, T;
(2019)
Conditional Segmentation in Lieu of Image Registration.
In:
Proceedings of the nternational Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention MICCAI 2019.
(pp. pp. 401-409).
Springer: Shenzhen, China.
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Abstract
Classical pairwise image registration methods search for a spatial transformation that optimises a numerical measure that indicates how well a pair of moving and fixed images are aligned. Current learning-based registration methods have adopted the same paradigm and typically predict, for any new input image pair, dense correspondences in the form of a dense displacement field or parameters of a spatial transformation model. However, in many applications of registration, the spatial transformation itself is only required to propagate points or regions of interest (ROIs). In such cases, detailed pixel- or voxel-level correspondence within or outside of these ROIs often have little clinical value. In this paper, we propose an alternative paradigm in which the location of corresponding image-specific ROIs, defined in one image, within another image is learnt. This results in replacing image registration by a conditional segmentation algorithm, which can build on typical image segmentation networks and their widely-adopted training strategies. Using the registration of 3D MRI and ultrasound images of the prostate as an example to demonstrate this new approach, we report a median target registration error (TRE) of 2.1 mm between the ground-truth ROIs defined on intraoperative ultrasound images and those propagated from the preoperative MR images. Significantly lower (>34%) TREs were obtained using the proposed conditional segmentation compared with those obtained from a previously-proposed spatial-transformation-predicting registration network trained with the same multiple ROI labels for individual image pairs. We conclude this work by using a quantitative bias-variance analysis to provide one explanation of the observed improvement in registration accuracy.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Conditional Segmentation in Lieu of Image Registration |
| Event: | nternational Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention MICCAI 2019 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-32245-8_45 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32245-8_45 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Med Phys and Biomedical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10077977 |
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