Framing image registration as a landmark detection problem for better representation of clinical relevance

07/31/2023
by   Diana Waldmannstetter, et al.
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Nowadays, registration methods are typically evaluated based on sub-resolution tracking error differences. In an effort to reinfuse this evaluation process with clinical relevance, we propose to reframe image registration as a landmark detection problem. Ideally, landmark-specific detection thresholds are derived from an inter-rater analysis. To approximate this costly process, we propose to compute hit rate curves based on the distribution of errors of a sub-sample inter-rater analysis. Therefore, we suggest deriving thresholds from the error distribution using the formula: median + delta * median absolute deviation. The method promises differentiation of previously indistinguishable registration algorithms and further enables assessing the clinical significance in algorithm development.

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