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ArticleIEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society2022

Two-Step Registration on Multi-Modal Retinal Images via Deep Neural Networks.

Junkang Zhang, Yiqian Wang, Ji Dai, Melina Cavichini, Dirk-Uwe G Bartsch, William R Freeman, Truong Q Nguyen, Cheolhong An

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Article in IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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  8. Universal Vessel Segmentation for Multi-Modality Retinal Images.IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society · 2025
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  11. Medical image registration and its application in retinal images: a review.Visual computing for industry, biomedicine, and art · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Junkang Zhang
Yiqian Wang
Ji Dai
Melina Cavichini
Dirk-Uwe G Bartsch
William R Freeman
Truong Q Nguyen
Cheolhong An

Funding

Vision BiostatisticsP30EY022589 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Derek Stuart Welsbie · 2012 to 2026
$10.3M
Mechanistic-Based Non-Invasive Assessment of Retinal Damage in HAART EraR01EY016323 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI BARTSCH, DIRK-UWE G · 2006 to 2020
$5.0M
SCH: Multimodal Retina Image Alignment and ApplicationsR01EY033847 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI AN, CHEOLHONG, BARTSCH, DIRK-UWE G · 2021 to 2024
$1.2M
NEI NIH HHS P30 EY022589NEI NIH HHS R01 EY016323NEI NIH HHS R01 EY033847
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multi-modal retinal image registration plays an important role in the ophthalmological diagnosis process. The conventional methods lack robustness in aligning multi-modal images of various imaging qualities. Deep-learning methods have not been widely developed for this task, especially for the coarse-to-fine registration pipeline. To handle this task, we propose a two-step method based on deep convolutional networks, including a coarse alignment step and a fine alignment step. In the coarse alignment step, a global registration matrix is estimated by three sequentially connected networks for vessel segmentation, feature detection and description, and outlier rejection, respectively. In the fine alignment step, a deformable registration network is set up to find pixel-wise correspondence between a target image and a coarsely aligned image from the previous step to further improve the alignment accuracy. Particularly, an unsupervised learning framework is proposed to handle the difficulties of inconsistent modalities and lack of labeled training data for the fine alignment step. The proposed framework first changes multi-modal images into a same modality through modality transformers, and then adopts photometric consistency loss and smoothness loss to train the deformable registration network. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art results in Dice metrics and is more robust in challenging cases.

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Magnetic Resonance ImagingNeural Networks, ComputerImage Processing, Computer-AssistedRetina

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PMID34932479
PMCPMC8912939

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