CNN-based lung CT registration with multiple anatomical constraints

Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved..

Deep-learning-based registration methods emerged as a fast alternative to conventional registration methods. However, these methods often still cannot achieve the same performance as conventional registration methods because they are either limited to small deformation or they fail to handle a superposition of large and small deformations without producing implausible deformation fields with foldings inside. In this paper, we identify important strategies of conventional registration methods for lung registration and successfully developed the deep-learning counterpart. We employ a Gaussian-pyramid-based multilevel framework that can solve the image registration optimization in a coarse-to-fine fashion. Furthermore, we prevent foldings of the deformation field and restrict the determinant of the Jacobian to physiologically meaningful values by combining a volume change penalty with a curvature regularizer in the loss function. Keypoint correspondences are integrated to focus on the alignment of smaller structures. We perform an extensive evaluation to assess the accuracy, the robustness, the plausibility of the estimated deformation fields, and the transferability of our registration approach. We show that it achieves state-of-the-art results on the COPDGene dataset compared to conventional registration method with much shorter execution time. In our experiments on the DIRLab exhale to inhale lung registration, we demonstrate substantial improvements (TRE below 1.2 mm) over other deep learning methods. Our algorithm is publicly available at https://grand-challenge.org/algorithms/deep-learning-based-ct-lung-registration/.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:72

Enthalten in:

Medical image analysis - 72(2021) vom: 15. Aug., Seite 102139

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hering, Alessa [VerfasserIn]
Häger, Stephanie [VerfasserIn]
Moltz, Jan [VerfasserIn]
Lessmann, Nikolas [VerfasserIn]
Heldmann, Stefan [VerfasserIn]
van Ginneken, Bram [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

Deep learning
Image registration
Journal Article
Keypoints
Lung CT
Multilevel
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Volume change control

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 02.08.2021

Date Revised 27.07.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.media.2021.102139

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM327636246