TransMorph: Transformer for unsupervised medical image registration.
In the last decade, convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) have been a major focus of research in medical image analysis. However, the performances of ConvNets may be limited by a lack of explicit consideration of the long-range spatial relationships in an image. Recently, Vision Transformer architectures have been proposed to address the shortcomings of ConvNets and have produced state-of-the-art performances in many medical imaging applications. Transformers may be a strong candidate for image registration because their substantially larger receptive field enables a more precise comprehension of the spatial correspondence between moving and fixed images. Here, we present TransMorph, a hybrid Transformer-ConvNet model for volumetric medical image registration. This paper also presents diffeomorphic and Bayesian variants of TransMorph: the diffeomorphic variants ensure the topology-preserving deformations, and the Bayesian variant produces a well-calibrated registration uncertainty estimate. We extensively validated the proposed models using 3D medical images from three applications: inter-patient and atlas-to-patient brain MRI registration and phantom-to-CT registration. The proposed models are evaluated in comparison to a variety of existing registration methods and Transformer architectures. Qualitative and quantitative results demonstrate that the proposed Transformer-based model leads to a substantial performance improvement over the baseline methods, confirming the effectiveness of Transformers for medical image registration.
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- Phantoms, Imaging
- Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
- Neural Networks, Computer
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Imaging, Three-Dimensional
- Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
- Humans
- Bayes Theorem
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Published In
DOI
EISSN
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Start / End Page
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Related Subject Headings
- Phantoms, Imaging
- Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
- Neural Networks, Computer
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Imaging, Three-Dimensional
- Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
- Humans
- Bayes Theorem
- 40 Engineering
- 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences