Learning to Match 2D Keypoints Across Preoperative MR and Intraoperative Ultrasound
<|reference_start|>Learning to Match 2D Keypoints Across Preoperative MR and Intraoperative Ultrasound: We propose in this paper a texture-invariant 2D keypoints descriptor specifically designed for matching preoperative Magnetic Resonance (MR) images with intraoperative Ultrasound (US) images. We introduce a matching-by-synthesis strategy, where intraoperative US images are synthesized from MR images accounting for multiple MR modalities and intraoperative US variability. We build our training set by enforcing keypoints localization over all images then train a patient-specific descriptor network that learns texture-invariant discriminant features in a supervised contrastive manner, leading to robust keypoints descriptors. Our experiments on real cases with ground truth show the effectiveness of the proposed approach, outperforming the state-of-the-art methods and achieving 80.35% matching precision on average.<|reference_end|>
@article{rasheed2024learning,
    title={Learning to Match 2D Keypoints Across Preoperative MR and Intraoperative
  Ultrasound},
    author={Hassan Rasheed, Reuben Dorent, Maximilian Fehrentz, Tina Kapur,
  William M. Wells III, Alexandra Golby, Sarah Frisken, Julia A. Schnabel, and
  Nazim Haouchine},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.08169},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2409.08169},
    primaryClass={cs.CV}
}