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In unsupervised medical image registration, encoder-decoder architectures are widely used to predict dense, full-resolution displacement fields from paired images. Despite their popularity, we question the necessity of making both the encoder and decoder learnable. To address this, we propose LessNet, a simplified network architecture with only a learnable decoder, while completely omitting a learnable encoder. Instead, LessNet replaces the encoder with simple, handcrafted features, eliminating the need to optimize encoder parameters. This results in a compact, efficient, and decoder-only architecture for 3D medical image registration. We evaluate our decoder-only LessNet on five registration tasks: 1) inter-subject brain registration using the OASIS-1 dataset, 2) atlas-based brain registration using the IXI dataset, 3) cardiac ES-ED registration using the ACDC dataset, 4) inter-subject abdominal MR registration using the CHAOS dataset, and 5) multi-study, multi-site brain registration using images from 13 public datasets. Our results demonstrate that LessNet can effectively and efficiently learn both dense displacement and diffeomorphic deformation fields. Furthermore, our decoder-only LessNet can achieve comparable registration performance to benchmarking methods such as VoxelMorph and TransMorph, while requiring significantly fewer computational resources. Our code and pre-trained models are available at <uri xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">https://github.com/xi-jia/LessNet</uri>
Keywords:
Decoder-only
image registration
U-Net
efficient
diffeomorphic
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