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20142023
most citedMultidimensional classification of hippocampal shape features discriminates Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment from normal aging

416 citations · 748 across the 56 of their papers we have counts for

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61 papers

cs.CV2023

Self-supervised Landmark Learning with Deformation Reconstruction and Cross-subject Consistency Objectives

Chun-Hung Chao, Marc Niethammer

A Point Distribution Model (PDM) is the basis of a Statistical Shape Model (SSM) that relies on a set of landmark points to represent a shape and characterize the shape variation.…

cs.CV2023

Multimodal Understanding Through Correlation Maximization and Minimization

Yifeng Shi, Marc Niethammer

Multimodal learning has mainly focused on learning large models on, and fusing feature representations from, different modalities for better performances on downstream tasks. In th…

cs.CV2023

Inverse Consistency by Construction for Multistep Deep Registration

Hastings Greer, Lin Tian, Francois-Xavier Vialard +5

Inverse consistency is a desirable property for image registration. We propose a simple technique to make a neural registration network inverse consistent by construction, as a con…

cs.CV2023

Unsupervised Discovery of 3D Hierarchical Structure with Generative Diffusion Features

Nurislam Tursynbek, Marc Niethammer

Inspired by recent findings that generative diffusion models learn semantically meaningful representations, we use them to discover the intrinsic hierarchical structure in biomedic…

eess.IV2023

MRIS: A Multi-modal Retrieval Approach for Image Synthesis on Diverse Modalities

Boqi Chen, Marc Niethammer

Multiple imaging modalities are often used for disease diagnosis, prediction, or population-based analyses. However, not all modalities might be available due to cost, different st…

cs.CV2023

NAISR: A 3D Neural Additive Model for Interpretable Shape Representation

Yining Jiao, Carlton Zdanski, Julia Kimbell +8

Deep implicit functions (DIFs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for many computer vision tasks such as 3D shape reconstruction, generation, registration, completion, editing, an…

cs.CV2023

Exploring Cycle Consistency Learning in Interactive Volume Segmentation

Qin Liu, Meng Zheng, Benjamin Planche +4

Automatic medical volume segmentation often lacks clinical accuracy, necessitating further refinement. In this work, we interactively approach medical volume segmentation via two d…

eess.IV2022

Harmonization Benchmarking Tool for Neuroimaging Datasets

Tom Osika, Ebrahim Ebrahim, Martin Styner +3

A major data pre-processing step for large, multi-site studies is to handle site effects by harmonizing data, generating a dataset that enables more powerful analyses and more robu…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Compositional Generalization in Unsupervised Compositional Representation Learning: A Study on Disentanglement and Emergent Language

Zhenlin Xu, Marc Niethammer, Colin Raffel

Deep learning models struggle with compositional generalization, i.e. the ability to recognize or generate novel combinations of observed elementary concepts. In hopes of enabling…

cs.CV2022★ 9 cited

SimpleClick: Interactive Image Segmentation with Simple Vision Transformers

Qin Liu, Zhenlin Xu, Gedas Bertasius +1

Click-based interactive image segmentation aims at extracting objects with a limited user clicking. A hierarchical backbone is the de-facto architecture for current methods. Recent…

cs.CV2022

Optimal Transport Features for Morphometric Population Analysis

Samuel Gerber, Marc Niethammer, Ebrahim Ebrahim +5

Brain pathologies often manifest as partial or complete loss of tissue. The goal of many neuroimaging studies is to capture the location and amount of tissue changes with respect t…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

PseudoClick: Interactive Image Segmentation with Click Imitation

Qin Liu, Meng Zheng, Benjamin Planche +4

The goal of click-based interactive image segmentation is to obtain precise object segmentation masks with limited user interaction, i.e., by a minimal number of user clicks. Exist…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

: Approximate Diffeomorphisms via Gradient Inverse Consistency

Lin Tian, Hastings Greer, François-Xavier Vialard +6

We present an approach to learning regular spatial transformations between image pairs in the context of medical image registration. Contrary to optimization-based registration tec…

eess.IV2022★ 2 cited

Aladdin: Joint Atlas Building and Diffeomorphic Registration Learning with Pairwise Alignment

Zhipeng Ding, Marc Niethammer

Atlas building and image registration are important tasks for medical image analysis. Once one or multiple atlases from an image population have been constructed, commonly (1) imag…

eess.IV2022★ 6 cited

Fluid registration between lung CT and stationary chest tomosynthesis images

Lin Tian, Connor Puett, Peirong Liu +4

Registration is widely used in image-guided therapy and image-guided surgery to estimate spatial correspondences between organs of interest between planning and treatment images. H…

eess.IV2022★ 1 cited

LiftReg: Limited Angle 2D/3D Deformable Registration

Lin Tian, Yueh Z. Lee, Raúl San José Estépar +1

We propose LiftReg, a 2D/3D deformable registration approach. LiftReg is a deep registration framework which is trained using sets of digitally reconstructed radiographs (DRR) and…

cs.LG2022

On Measuring Excess Capacity in Neural Networks

Florian Graf, Sebastian Zeng, Bastian Rieck +2

We study the excess capacity of deep networks in the context of supervised classification. That is, given a capacity measure of the underlying hypothesis class - in our case, empir…

cs.CV2021

iSegFormer: Interactive Segmentation via Transformers with Application to 3D Knee MR Images

Qin Liu, Zhenlin Xu, Yining Jiao +1

We propose iSegFormer, a memory-efficient transformer that combines a Swin transformer with a lightweight multilayer perceptron (MLP) decoder. With the efficient Swin transformer b…

cs.CV2021

Deep Decomposition for Stochastic Normal-Abnormal Transport

Peirong Liu, Yueh Lee, Stephen Aylward +1

Advection-diffusion equations describe a large family of natural transport processes, e.g., fluid flow, heat transfer, and wind transport. They are also used for optical flow and p…

cs.CV2021★ 26 cited

Accurate Point Cloud Registration with Robust Optimal Transport

Zhengyang Shen, Jean Feydy, Peirong Liu +4

This work investigates the use of robust optimal transport (OT) for shape matching. Specifically, we show that recent OT solvers improve both optimization-based and deep learning m…

cs.CV2021

ICON: Learning Regular Maps Through Inverse Consistency

Hastings Greer, Roland Kwitt, Francois-Xavier Vialard +1

Learning maps between data samples is fundamental. Applications range from representation learning, image translation and generative modeling, to the estimation of spatial deformat…

stat.ML2021★ 1 cited

Dissecting Supervised Contrastive Learning

Florian Graf, Christoph D. Hofer, Marc Niethammer +1

Minimizing cross-entropy over the softmax scores of a linear map composed with a high-capacity encoder is arguably the most popular choice for training neural networks on supervise…

eess.IV2020★ 1 cited

Discovering Hidden Physics Behind Transport Dynamics

Peirong Liu, Lin Tian, Yubo Zhang +3

Transport processes are ubiquitous. They are, for example, at the heart of optical flow approaches; or of perfusion imaging, where blood transport is assessed, most commonly by inj…

eess.IV2020

VoteNet++: Registration Refinement for Multi-Atlas Segmentation

Zhipeng Ding, Marc Niethammer

Multi-atlas segmentation (MAS) is a popular image segmentation technique for medical images. In this work, we improve the performance of MAS by correcting registration errors befor…