Medical Image Registration Meets Vision Foundation Model: Prototype Learning and Contour Awareness

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11440v1
• Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 04:54:47 GMT
• Title: Medical Image Registration Meets Vision Foundation Model: Prototype Learning and Contour Awareness
• Authors: Hao Xu, Tengfei Xue, Jianan Fan, Dongnan Liu, Yuqian Chen, Fan Zhang, Carl-Fredrik Westin, Ron Kikinis, Lauren J. O'Donnell, Weidong Cai,
• Abstract summary: Existing deformable registration methods rely solely on intensity-based similarity metrics, lacking explicit anatomical knowledge. We propose a novel SAM-assisted registration framework incorporating prototype learning and contour awareness. Our framework significantly outperforms existing methods across multiple datasets.
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• Abstract: Medical image registration is a fundamental task in medical image analysis, aiming to establish spatial correspondences between paired images. However, existing unsupervised deformable registration methods rely solely on intensity-based similarity metrics, lacking explicit anatomical knowledge, which limits their accuracy and robustness. Vision foundation models, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), can generate high-quality segmentation masks that provide explicit anatomical structure knowledge, addressing the limitations of traditional methods that depend only on intensity similarity. Based on this, we propose a novel SAM-assisted registration framework incorporating prototype learning and contour awareness. The framework includes: (1) Explicit anatomical information injection, where SAM-generated segmentation masks are used as auxiliary inputs throughout training and testing to ensure the consistency of anatomical information; (2) Prototype learning, which leverages segmentation masks to extract prototype features and aligns prototypes to optimize semantic correspondences between images; and (3) Contour-aware loss, a contour-aware loss is designed that leverages the edges of segmentation masks to improve the model's performance in fine-grained deformation fields. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed framework significantly outperforms existing methods across multiple datasets, particularly in challenging scenarios with complex anatomical structures and ambiguous boundaries. Our code is available at https://github.com/HaoXu0507/IPMI25-SAM-Assisted-Registration.

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