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Learning-based deformable image registration for infant MR images in the first year of life

Authors
Hu, ShunboWei, LifangGao, YaozongGuo, YanrongWu, GuorongShen, Dinggang
Issue Date
1월-2017
Publisher
WILEY
Keywords
deformable image registration; infant brain MR image; regression forest
Citation
MEDICAL PHYSICS, v.44, no.1, pp.158 - 170
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Journal Title
MEDICAL PHYSICS
Volume
44
Number
1
Start Page
158
End Page
170
URI
https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/85172
DOI
10.1002/mp.12007
ISSN
0094-2405
Abstract
Purpose: Many brain development studies have been devoted to investigate dynamic structural and functional changes in the first year of life. To quantitatively measure brain development in such a dynamic period, accurate image registration for different infant subjects with possible large age gap is of high demand. Although many state-of-the-art image registration methods have been proposed for young and elderly brain images, very few registration methods work for infant brain images acquired in the first year of life, because of (a) large anatomical changes due to fast brain development and (b) dynamic appearance changes due to white-matter myelination. Methods: To address these two difficulties, we propose a learning-based registration method to not only align the anatomical structures but also alleviate the appearance differences between two arbitrary infant MR images (with large age gap) by leveraging the regression forest to predict both the initial displacement vector and appearance changes. Specifically, in the training stage, two regression models are trained separately, with (a) one model learning the relationship between local image appearance (of one development phase) and its displacement toward the template (of another development phase) and (b) another model learning the local appearance changes between the two brain development phases. Then, in the testing stage, to register a new infant image to the template, we first predict both its voxel-wise displacement and appearance changes by the two learned regression models. Since such initializations can alleviate significant appearance and shape differences between new infant image and the template, it is easy to just use a conventional registration method to refine the remaining registration. Results: We apply our proposed registration method to align 24 infant subjects at five different time points (i. e., 2-week-old, 3-month-old, 6-month-old, 9-month-old, and 12-month-old), and achieve more accurate and robust registration results, compared to the state-of-the-art registration methods. Conclusions: The proposed learning-based registration method addresses the challenging task of registering infant brain images and achieves higher registration accuracy compared with other counterpart registration methods. (C) 2016 American Association of Physicists in Medicine
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