RegQCNET: Deep Quality Control for Image-to-template Brain MRI Registration

Registration of one or several brain image(s) onto a common reference space defined by a template is a necessary prerequisite for many image processing tasks, such as brain structure segmentation or functional MRI study. Manual assessment of registration quality is a tedious and time-consuming task, especially when a large amount of data is involved. An automated and reliable quality control (QC) is thus mandatory. Moreover, the computation time of the QC must be also compatible with the processing of massive datasets. Therefore, deep neural network approaches appear as a method of choice to automatically assess registration quality. In the current study, a compact 3D CNN, referred to as RegQCNET, is introduced to quantitatively predict the amplitude of a registration mismatch between the registered image and the reference template. This quantitative estimation of registration error is expressed using metric unit system. Therefore, a meaningful task-specific threshold can be manually or automatically defined in order to distinguish usable and non-usable images. The robustness of the proposed RegQCNET is first analyzed on lifespan brain images undergoing various simulated spatial transformations and intensity variations between training and testing. Secondly, the potential of RegQCNET to classify images as usable or non-usable is evaluated using both manual and automatic thresholds. The latters were estimated using several computer-assisted classification models through cross-validation. To this end we used expert's visual quality control estimated on a lifespan cohort of 3953 brains. Finally, the RegQCNET accuracy is compared to usual image features such as image correlation coefficient and mutual information. Results show that the proposed deep learning QC is robust, fast and accurate to estimate registration error in processing pipeline.

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