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20222026
most citedA survey on deep learning in medical image registration: new technologies, uncertainty, evaluation metrics, and beyond

7 citations · 10 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

eess.IV2026

Solving a Nonlinear Blind Inverse Problem for Tagged MRI with Physics and Deep Generative Priors

Zhangxing Bian, Shuwen Wei, Samuel W. Remedios +4

Tagged MRI enables tracking internal tissue motion non-invasively. It encodes motion by modulating anatomy with periodic tags, which deform along with tissue. However, the entangle…

cs.CV2026

Likelihood-Separable Diffusion Inference for Multi-Image MRI Super-Resolution

Samuel W. Remedios, Zhangxing Bian, Shuwen Wei +3

Diffusion models are the current state-of-the-art for solving inverse problems in imaging. Their impressive generative capability allows them to approximate sampling from a prior d…

eess.IV2025

CATNUS: Coordinate-Aware Thalamic Nuclei Segmentation Using T1-Weighted MRI

Anqi Feng, Zhangxing Bian, Samuel W. Remedios +6

Accurate segmentation of thalamic nuclei from magnetic resonance images is important due to the distinct roles of these nuclei in overall brain function and to their differential i…

eess.IV2025

Segmenting Thalamic Nuclei: T1 Maps Provide a Reliable and Efficient Solution

Anqi Feng, Zhangxing Bian, Samuel W. Remedios +5

Accurate thalamic nuclei segmentation is crucial for understanding neurological diseases, brain functions, and guiding clinical interventions. However, the optimal inputs for segme…

eess.IV2025

Brightness-Invariant Tracking Estimation in Tagged MRI

Zhangxing Bian, Shuwen Wei, Xiao Liang +10

Magnetic resonance (MR) tagging is an imaging technique for noninvasively tracking tissue motion in vivo by creating a visible pattern of magnetization saturation (tags) that defor…

cs.CV2024

Unsupervised learning of spatially varying regularization for diffeomorphic image registration

Junyu Chen, Shuwen Wei, Yihao Liu +5

Spatially varying regularization accommodates the deformation variations that may be necessary for different anatomical regions during deformable image registration. Historically,…

eess.IV2024

RATNUS: Rapid, Automatic Thalamic Nuclei Segmentation using Multimodal MRI inputs

Anqi Feng, Zhangxing Bian, Blake E. Dewey +3

Accurate segmentation of thalamic nuclei is important for better understanding brain function and improving disease treatment. Traditional segmentation methods often rely on a sing…

eess.IV2024

From Registration Uncertainty to Segmentation Uncertainty

Junyu Chen, Yihao Liu, Shuwen Wei +3

Understanding the uncertainty inherent in deep learning-based image registration models has been an ongoing area of research. Existing methods have been developed to quantify both…

eess.IV2024★ 1 cited

Is Registering Raw Tagged-MR Enough for Strain Estimation in the Era of Deep Learning?

Zhangxing Bian, Ahmed Alshareef, Shuwen Wei +7

Magnetic Resonance Imaging with tagging (tMRI) has long been utilized for quantifying tissue motion and strain during deformation. However, a phenomenon known as tag fading, a grad…

eess.IV2023

Efficient Annotation for Medical Image Analysis: A One-Pass Selective Annotation Approach

Yuli Wang, Peiyu Duan, Zhangxing Bian +2

Annotating biomedical images for supervised learning is a complex and labor-intensive task due to data diversity and its intricate nature. In this paper, we propose an innovative m…

eess.IV2023

MomentaMorph: Unsupervised Spatial-Temporal Registration with Momenta, Shooting, and Correction

Zhangxing Bian, Shuwen Wei, Yihao Liu +6

Tagged magnetic resonance imaging (tMRI) has been employed for decades to measure the motion of tissue undergoing deformation. However, registration-based motion estimation from tM…

eess.IV2023★ 7 cited

A survey on deep learning in medical image registration: new technologies, uncertainty, evaluation metrics, and beyond

Junyu Chen, Yihao Liu, Shuwen Wei +5

Deep learning technologies have dramatically reshaped the field of medical image registration over the past decade. The initial developments, such as regression-based and U-Net-bas…

eess.IV2023

LitCall: Learning Implicit Topology for CNN-based Aortic Landmark Localization

Zhangxing Bian, Jiayang Zhong, Yanglong Lu +2

Landmark detection is a critical component of the image processing pipeline for automated aortic size measurements. Given that the thoracic aorta has a relatively conserved topolog…

eess.IV2023

DrDisco: Deep Registration for Distortion Correction of Diffusion MRI with single phase-encoding

Zhangxing Bian, Muhan Shao, Aaron Carass +1

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is a non-invasive way of imaging white matter tracts in the human brain. DW-MRIs are usually acquired using echo-planar imagi…

eess.IV2023

Label Propagation via Random Walk for Training Robust Thalamus Nuclei Parcellation Model from Noisy Annotations

Anqi Feng, Yuan Xue, Yuli Wang +7

Data-driven thalamic nuclei parcellation depends on high-quality manual annotations. However, the small size and low contrast changes among thalamic nuclei, yield annotations that…

eess.IV2023

FastCod: Fast Brain Connectivity in Diffusion Imaging

Zhangxing Bian, Muhan Shao, Jiachen Zhuo +3

Connectivity information derived from diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance images~(DW-MRIs) plays an important role in studying human subcortical gray matter structures. However,…

eess.IV2023

New starting point registration method for tagged MRI tongue motion estimation

Jinglun Yu, Muhan Shao, Zhangxing Bian +4

Accurate tongue motion estimation is essential for tongue function evaluation. The harmonic phase processing (HARP) method and the phase vector incompressible registration algorith…

eess.IV2023★ 1 cited

Segmenting thalamic nuclei from manifold projections of multi-contrast MRI

Chang Yan, Muhan Shao, Zhangxing Bian +6

The thalamus is a subcortical gray matter structure that plays a key role in relaying sensory and motor signals within the brain. Its nuclei can atrophy or otherwise be affected by…

eess.IV2023

DRIMET: Deep Registration for 3D Incompressible Motion Estimation in Tagged-MRI with Application to the Tongue

Zhangxing Bian, Fangxu Xing, Jinglun Yu +6

Tagged magnetic resonance imaging~(MRI) has been used for decades to observe and quantify the detailed motion of deforming tissue. However, this technique faces several challenges…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Learning Pixel Trajectories with Multiscale Contrastive Random Walks

Zhangxing Bian, Allan Jabri, Alexei A. Efros +1

A range of video modeling tasks, from optical flow to multiple object tracking, share the same fundamental challenge: establishing space-time correspondence. Yet, approaches that d…