Uncertainty Quantification, Image Synthesis and Deformation Prediction for Image Registration
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Yang, Xiao. Uncertainty Quantification, Image Synthesis and Deformation Prediction for Image Registration. 2017. https://doi.org/10.17615/5zf1-nc09APA
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Yang, Xiao. 2017. Uncertainty Quantification, Image Synthesis and Deformation Prediction for Image Registration. https://doi.org/10.17615/5zf1-nc09- Last Modified
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Yang, Xiao
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Computer Science
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- Image registration is essential for medical image analysis to provide spatial correspondences. It is a difficult problem due to the modeling complexity of image appearance and the computational complexity of the deformable registration models. Thus, several techniques are needed: Uncertainty measurements of the high-dimensional parameter space of the registration methods for the evaluation of the registration result; Registration methods for registering healthy medical images to pathological images with large appearance changes; Fast registration prediction techniques for uni-modal and multi-modal images. This dissertation addresses these problems and makes the following contributions: 1) A frame- work for uncertainty quantification of image registration results is proposed. The proposed method for uncertainty quantification utilizes a low-rank Hessian approximation to evaluate the variance/co- variance of the variational Gaussian distribution of the registration parameters. The method requires significantly less storage and computation time than computing the Hessian via finite difference while achieving excellent approximation accuracy, facilitating the computation of the variational approximation; 2) An image synthesis deep network for pathological image registration is developed. The network transforms a pathological image into a ‘quasi-normal’ image, making registrations more accurate; 3) A patch-based deep learning framework for registration parameter prediction using image appearances only is created. The network is capable of accurately predicting the initial momentum for the Large Deformation Diffeomorphic Metric Mapping (LDDMM) model for both uni-modal and multi-modal registration problems, while increasing the registration speed by at least an order of magnitude compared with optimization-based approaches and maintaining the theoretical properties of LDDMM. Applications of the methods include 1) Uncertainty quantification of LDDMM for 2D and 3D medical image registrations, which could be used for uncertainty-based image smoothing and subsequent analysis; 2) Quasi-normal image synthesis for the registration of brain images with tumors with potential extensions to other image registration problems with pathologies and 3) deformation prediction for various brain datasets and T1w/T2w magnetic resonance images (MRI), which could be incorporated into other medical image analysis tasks such as fast multi-atlas image segmentation, fast geodesic image regression, fast atlas construction and fast user-interactive registration refinement.
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- August 2017
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- Marron, James Stephen
- Styner, Martin
- Niethammer, Marc
- Kwitt, Roland
- Jojic, Vladimir
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- Doctor of Philosophy
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
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- 2017
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