In IEEE transactions on medical imaging ; h5-index 74.0
Image registration is a fundamental medical image analysis task, and a wide variety of approaches have been proposed. However, only a few studies have comprehensively compared medical image registration approaches on a wide range of clinically relevant tasks. This limits the development of registration methods, the adoption of research advances into practice, and a fair benchmark across competing approaches. The Learn2Reg challenge addresses these limitations by providing a multi-task medical image registration data set for comprehensive characterisation of deformable registration algorithms. A continuous evaluation will be possible at https:// learn2reg.grand-challenge.org. Learn2Reg covers a wide range of anatomies (brain, abdomen, and thorax), modalities (ultrasound, CT, MR), availability of annotations, as well as intra- and inter-patient registration evaluation. We established an easily accessible framework for training and validation of 3D registration methods, which enabled the compilation of results of over 65 individual method submissions from more than 20 unique teams. We used a complementary set of metrics, including robustness, accuracy, plausibility, and runtime, enabling unique insight into the current state-of-the-art of medical image registration. This paper describes datasets, tasks, evaluation methods and results of the challenge, as well as results of further analysis of transferability to new datasets, the importance of label supervision, and resulting bias. While no single approach worked best across all tasks, many methodological aspects could be identified that push the performance of medical image registration to new state-of-the-art performance. Furthermore, we demystified the common belief that conventional registration methods have to be much slower than deep-learning-based methods.
Hering Alessa, Hansen Lasse, Mok Tony C W, Chung Albert C S, Siebert Hanna, Hager Stephanie, Lange Annkristin, Kuckertz Sven, Heldmann Stefan, Shao Wei, Vesal Sulaiman, Rusu Mirabela, Sonn Geoffrey, Estienne Theo, Vakalopoulou Maria, Han Luyi, Huang Yunzhi, Yap Pew-Thian, Brudfors Mikael, Balbastre Yael, Joutard Samuel, Modat Marc, Lifshitz Gal, Raviv Dan, Lv Jinxin, Li Qiang, Jaouen Vincent, Visvikis Dimitris, Fourcade Constance, Rubeaux Mathieu, Pan Wentao, Xu Zhe, Jian Bailiang, De Benetti Francesca, Wodzinski Marek, Gunnarsson Niklas, Sjolund Jens, Grzech Daniel, Qiu Huaqi, Li Zeju, Thorley Alexander, Duan Jinming, Grossbrohmer Christoph, Hoopes Andrew, Reinertsen Ingerid, Xiao Yiming, Landman Bennett, Huo Yuankai, Murphy Keelin, Lessmann Nikolas, Van Ginneken Bram, Dalca Adrian V, Heinrich Mattias P
2022-Oct-20
