Tianyang Zhang

Xi Jia, Joseph Bartlett, Wei Chen et al.

Unsupervised image registration commonly adopts U-Net style networks to predict dense displacement fields in the full-resolution spatial domain. For high-resolution volumetric image data, this process is however resource-intensive and time-consuming. To tackle this problem, we propose the Fourier-Net, replacing the expansive path in a U-Net style network with a parameter-free model-driven decoder. Specifically, instead of our Fourier-Net learning to output a full-resolution displacement field in the spatial domain, we learn its low-dimensional representation in a band-limited Fourier domain. This representation is then decoded by our devised model-driven decoder (consisting of a zero padding layer and an inverse discrete Fourier transform layer) to the dense, full-resolution displacement field in the spatial domain. These changes allow our unsupervised Fourier-Net to contain fewer parameters and computational operations, resulting in faster inference speeds. Fourier-Net is then evaluated on two public 3D brain datasets against various state-of-the-art approaches. For example, when compared to a recent transformer-based method, named TransMorph, our Fourier-Net, which only uses 2.2\% of its parameters and 6.66\% of the multiply-add operations, achieves a 0.5\% higher Dice score and an 11.48 times faster inference speed. Code is available at \url{https://github.com/xi-jia/Fourier-Net}.

Shaoming Zheng, Tianyang Zhang, Jiawei Zhuang et al.

Vessel segmentation in fundus is a key diagnostic capability in ophthalmology, and there are various challenges remained in this essential task. Early approaches indicate that it is often difficult to obtain desirable segmentation performance on thin vessels and boundary areas due to the imbalance of vessel pixels with different thickness levels. In this paper, we propose a novel two-stream Meticulous-Processing Network (MP-Net) for tackling this problem. To pay more attention to the thin vessels and boundary areas, we firstly propose an efficient hierarchical model automatically stratifies the ground-truth masks into different thickness levels. Then a novel two-stream adversarial network is introduced to use the stratification results with a balanced loss function and an integration operation to achieve a better performance, especially in thin vessels and boundary areas detecting. Our model is proved to outperform state-of-the-art methods on DRIVE, STARE, and CHASE_DB1 datasets.