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Deep learning in medical image registration: a review

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Fu, Yabo, Lei, Yang, Wang, Tonghe, Curran, Walter J, Liu, Tian, Yang, Xiaofeng·2020·Physics in Medicine & Biology

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This paper presents a review of deep learning (DL)-based medical image registration methods. We summarized the latest developments and applications of DL-based registration methods in the medical field. These methods were classified into seven categories according to their methods, functions and popularity. A detailed review of each category was presented, highlighting important contributions and identifying specific challenges. A short assessment was presented following the detailed review of each category to summarize its achievements and future potential. We provided a comprehensive comparison among DL-based methods for lung and brain registration using benchmark datasets. Lastly, we analyzed the statistics of all the cited works from various aspects, revealing the popularity and future trend of DL-based medical image registration.

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  • Previous reviews lack a summary of public datasets for benchmarking registration algorithms.

    “On one hand, these reviews lack a summary of the public dataset for benchmarking registration algorithms.”

    From A review of deep learning-based deformable medical image registration (2022) · cites this paper as [20]

    The Benchmark section says the review summarizes brain registration datasets. Its Brain subsection says table 11 lists datasets to facilitate benchmarking, and the Statistics section notes the availability of public brain datasets. This contradicts the claim that this review lacks such a summary. (LLM, conf=0.90)

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  • DL for medical image registration has numerous applications.

    “DL for medical image registration has numerous applications, which were listed by some review papers [320–322].”
  • Previous reviews about deep learning-based medical image registration literature have been published.

    “Though previous reviews about deep learning-based medical image registration literature have been published (19–22), there are still some deficiencies.”
  • Some details of the selected literature were missing in previous reviews.

    “On the other hand, some details of the selected literature were missing.”

    From A review of deep learning-based deformable medical image registration (2022) · cites this paper as [20]

    The Introduction says that few previous reviews focused specifically on deep learning in medical image registration, and describes this review's aim to provide detailed statistics. It does not say that previous reviews omitted details of their selected literature. Searches for missing details in previous reviews found no passage addressing that point; page numbers were unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.73)

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Authors
Fu, Y., Lei, Y., Wang, T., Curran, W. J., Liu, T., & Yang, X.
Affiliations
Emory University (US)
Corresponding author
  • Lei, Yang
  • Yang, Xiaofeng
Venue
Physics in Medicine & Biology
Published
2020-10-07
Volume
65
Issue
20
Pages
20TR01
ISSN
  • 0031-9155 (ISSN-L)
  • 1361-6560
OpenAlex
W3013056581
Cited by
661
References
213
Citations by year
2026: 55 · 2025: 114 · 2024: 131 · 2023: 132 · 2022: 112 · 2021: 93 · 2020: 22
FWCI
7.33
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Physics in Medicine and Biology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (R01CA215718)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Medical Image Segmentation Techniques
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Keywords
medical image registration, deep learning, brain registration, benchmark dataset, research trends
MeSH terms
Deep Learning, Brain, Diagnostic Imaging, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted

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