A survey on deep learning in medical image registration: New technologies, uncertainty, evaluation metrics, and beyond

J Chen, Y Liu, S Wei, Z Bian, S Subramanian… - Medical Image …, 2024 - Elsevier
Deep learning technologies have dramatically reshaped the field of medical image
registration over the past decade. The initial developments, such as regression-based and U …

[HTML][HTML] Medical image registration in the era of Transformers: A recent review

H Ramadan, D El Bourakadi, A Yahyaouy… - Informatics in Medicine …, 2024 - Elsevier
Motivated by the rapid and current progress to develop intelligent image-guided intervention
tools, we aim in this paper to present, a recent review of a specific family of deep learning …

HCS-Net: Multi-level deformation strategy combined with quadruple attention for image registration

Z Ou, X Lu, Y Gu - Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
Background and objective Non-rigid image registration plays a significant role in computer-
aided diagnosis and surgical navigation for brain diseases. Registration methods that utilize …

Deformable cross-attention transformer for medical image registration

J Chen, Y Liu, Y He, Y Du - … Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical …, 2023 - Springer
Transformers have recently shown promise for medical image applications, leading to an
increasing interest in develo** such models for medical image registration. Recent …

Vector field attention for deformable image registration

Y Liu, J Chen, L Zuo, A Carass… - Journal of Medical …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Purpose Deformable image registration establishes non-linear spatial correspondences
between fixed and moving images. Deep learning–based deformable registration methods …

Mamba? catch the hype or rethink what really helps for image registration

B Jian, J Pan, M Ghahremani, D Rueckert… - … on Biomedical Image …, 2024 - Springer
VoxelMorph, proposed in 2018, utilizes Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to address
medical image registration problems. In 2021 TransMorph advanced this approach by …

Spatially-varying regularization with conditional transformer for unsupervised image registration

J Chen, Y Liu, Y He, Y Du - arxiv preprint arxiv:2303.06168, 2023 - arxiv.org
In the past, optimization-based registration models have used spatially-varying
regularization to account for deformation variations in different image regions. However …

Unsupervised learning of spatially varying regularization for diffeomorphic image registration

J Chen, S Wei, Y Liu, Z Bian, Y He, A Carass… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Spatially varying regularization accommodates the deformation variations that may be
necessary for different anatomical regions during deformable image registration. Historically …

TimeFlow: Longitudinal Brain Image Registration and Aging Progression Analysis

B Jian, J Pan, Y Li, F Bongratz, R Li, D Rueckert… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Predicting future brain states is crucial for understanding healthy aging and
neurodegenerative diseases. Longitudinal brain MRI registration, a cornerstone for such …

Improving Instance Optimization in Deformable Image Registration with Gradient Projection

Y Zhang, Y Zhao, Q Tao - arxiv preprint arxiv:2410.15767, 2024 - arxiv.org
Deformable image registration is inherently a multi-objective optimization (MOO) problem,
requiring a delicate balance between image similarity and deformation regularity. These …