Contour-Constrained Deformable Registration with Parameter Characterization for Head and Neck Surgical Guidance

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19767v1
• Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:07:26 GMT
• Title: Contour-Constrained Deformable Registration with Parameter Characterization for Head and Neck Surgical Guidance
• Abstract summary: We present a biomechanics-driven deformable registration framework that corrects post-resection tissue deformation to provide intraoperative guidance.<n>Across nine specimens from skin, buccal mucosa, and tongue sites, the overall mean target registration error was $11.11 pm 4.07$ mm using rigid registration.<n>The proposed contour-constrained deformable registration further reduced the error to $5.62 pm 2.28$ mm, a 49.41% reduction relative to rigid registration.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: With 890,000 annual new cases globally, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma has one of the highest recurrence rates among solid malignancies. Although frozen section analysis is the standard of care for intraoperative margin assessment, accurately relocating detected positive margins on the resection bed remains challenging due to imprecise alignment between resected specimens and their resection bed, compounded by post-resection mucosal tissue shrinkage. We present a biomechanics-driven deformable registration framework that corrects post-resection tissue deformation to provide intraoperative guidance. Our approach registers 3D specimen meshes to intraoperative resection bed point clouds using a deformable registration approach based on regularized Kelvinlet basis functions. The registration matches surface point clouds, fiducial landmarks, and boundary contour constraints that directly penalize perpendicular distance-to-agreement between specimen and resection bed boundaries. Across nine specimens from skin, buccal mucosa, and tongue sites, the overall mean target registration error was $11.11 \pm 4.07$ mm using rigid registration, which decreased to $8.20 \pm 2.68$ mm (26.19\% reduction) using deformable registration without contour constraint. The proposed contour-constrained deformable registration further reduced the error to $5.62 \pm 2.28$ mm, a 49.41\% reduction relative to rigid registration. We observed the largest reduction in the most clinically challenging tongue specimens. We also performed a systematic two-stage parameter search to characterize the relative importance of surface alignment, fiducial correspondences, contour constraint, and strain energy regularization. This search revealed that contour weighting dominates registration accuracy for tissue types with large lateral deformation, while the algorithm operates over a broad range of parameter combinations.

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