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Abstract #1758

Accurate and efficient co-registration of diffusion and T1-weighted MRI using self-supervised deep learning

Keyu Chen1, Ziyu Li2, Zihan Li3, and Qiyuan Tian3
1School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China, 2Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 3Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Synopsis

Keywords: Analysis/Processing, Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, co-registration, distortion correction, voxelmorph

Motivation: The co-registration between diffusion and T1-weighted data is important for various diffusion analyses, which is challenging due to the geometric distortion in diffusion images.

Goal(s): To achieve accurate and efficient co-registration between diffusion data and T1w image.

Approach: A self-supervised deep learning-based framework VoxelMorph was used to non-linearly align distorted diffusion b=0 image to T1w image. Our proposal was systematically and quantitatively compared to other linear and non-linear transformations. The benefit was also demonstrated.

Results: VoxelMorph achieved comparable co-registration accuracy compared to NiftyReg and seconds processing time, which was 40 times faster than NiftyReg, or even 300 times faster by leveraging transfer learning.

Impact: Our proposal achieved fast and accurate co-registration between distorted diffusion data and T1w image, which has a great potential to benefit various diffusion MRI data analyses for neuroscientific studies, including region-of-interest specific quantification and surface-based analysis.

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