VAN: Voting and Attention Based Network for Unsupervised Medical Image Registration

Zhiang Zu, Guixu Zhang, Yaxin Peng, Zhen Ye, Chaomin Shen*

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Abstract

In this paper, a novel unsupervised network for medical image registration called VAN (Voting and Attention based Network) is proposed, in which the final deformation field is determined by the voting process between multiple registration branches. To reduce model parameters, multiple registration branches share one encoder. Besides, the attention mechanism is introduced, which further improves the network accuracy. We also adopt the method of single training and multiple-registrations to deal with the problem of the large deformation field. The experimental results show that the registration effect of our proposed network outperforms the baselines VoxelMorph and Symmetric Normalization (SyN) on three brain MRI image datasets.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPRICAI 2021
Subtitle of host publicationTrends in Artificial Intelligence - 18th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2021, Proceedings
EditorsDuc Nghia Pham, Thanaruk Theeramunkong, Guido Governatori, Fenrong Liu
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages382-393
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783030891879
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event18th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 8 Nov 202112 Nov 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13031 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference18th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period8/11/2112/11/21

Keywords

  • Attention mechanism
  • Medical image registration
  • Multiple-registrations
  • Voting process

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