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ArticlePloS one2026

Anatomy-aware, label-informed approach improves image registration for challenging datasets.

Rachel A Roston, Nicholas J Tustison, A Murat Maga

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3 authors.

Rachel A RostonCenter for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
Nicholas J TustisonDepartment of Radiology and Medical Imaging, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9418-5103
A Murat MagaCenter for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7921-9018

Funding

Utilization of Advanced Technologies for the Understanding of Human Structural Birth DefectsP01HD104435 · NICHD · SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI DIPPLE, KATRINA M · 2021 to 2025
$8.4M
High-resolution ex vivo microCT for biomedical imagingS10OD032302 · OD · SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI MAGA, ALI MURAT · 2022 to 2022
$413k
NICHD NIH HHS P01 HD104435NIH HHS S10 OD032302
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Abstract

Image registration-based volumetric morphometrics have emerged as a valuable method for identifying subtle morphological differences in neuroimaging and other biomedical images. However, accurate registration out-of-the-box remains challenging when overt morphological phenotypes are present, limiting the application of registration-based morphometrics in developmental and comparative studies where overt phenotypic differences are common. A new label-informed image registration function developed in the ANTsX ecosystem provides an easy to use, generalizable solution for anatomy-aware registration of a wider diversity of morphological variation including many overt phenotypes. In this approach, segmentations (i.e., labels) provide a priori regional correspondences that guide the registration, allowing morphological experts to define regions of correspondence based on biological concepts of homology (e.g., tissue origin, gene expression patterns). Here we demonstrate the utility of this label-informed image registration approach for registering knockout mouse embryos with overt phenotypes which fail to register to a wildtype (normative) template image by traditional registration methods. Due to severe scoliosis, E15.5 Gli2-/- mouse embryos exhibit a radical topological rearrangement of the internal organs; traditional intensity-only registration fails to accurately align the organs of knockout embryos with the normative template, limiting the interpretability of registration-based morphometric analyses. In contrast, label-informed image registration improved the correspondence of knockout subjects to the canonical template image, increasing the biological interpretability, power, and sensitivity of registration-derived morphometrics. All in all, label-informed image registration provides a flexible and customizable method to allow image registration in datasets for which registration-based morphometrics were previously unfeasible, unlocking new potential applications of registration-based morphometrics in developmental, comparative, and evolutionary studies.

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Image Processing, Computer-AssistedAlgorithmsAnimalsMiceMice, KnockoutPhenotype

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PMID42709748
PMCPMC13552761

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