Consistent Point Matching

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23609v1
• Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:47:40 GMT
• Title: Consistent Point Matching
• Authors: Halid Ziya Yerebakan, Gerardo Hermosillo Valadez,
• Abstract summary: This study demonstrates that incorporating a consistency into the point-matching algorithm improves robustness in matching anatomical locations across pairs of medical images.<n>We validated our approach on diverse longitudinal internal and public datasets spanning CT and MRI modalities.
• Score: 0.046040036610482664
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: This study demonstrates that incorporating a consistency heuristic into the point-matching algorithm \cite{yerebakan2023hierarchical} improves robustness in matching anatomical locations across pairs of medical images. We validated our approach on diverse longitudinal internal and public datasets spanning CT and MRI modalities. Notably, it surpasses state-of-the-art results on the Deep Lesion Tracking dataset. Additionally, we show that the method effectively addresses landmark localization. The algorithm operates efficiently on standard CPU hardware and allows configurable trade-offs between speed and robustness. The method enables high-precision navigation between medical images without requiring a machine learning model or training data.

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