Image registration is a vital part in medical image analysis and computer-assisted interventions. Yet, with the advent of deep learning in image analysis that has shifted focus to automatic segmentation and classification techniques, the impact of registration is not well reflected in the number of MICCAI papers, workshops and challenges. We believe this is due to the difficulties in advancing learning techniques for a problem that is inherently ill-posed and has no viable ground truth training data. In addition, the connections across worldwide research groups are only loose and as a smaller community would benefit from specialised gatherings.
Mission
The main mission of SIG-BIR will be the strengthening of exchange between different research groups in the field of biomedical image registration. This will be facilitated by organising one satellite event at MICCAI conferences and one biennial international workshop (WBIR). In addition tutorials and smaller workshops organised by members/interested individuals will be considered for financial support.
Secondly, we aim to provide and curate public data sets for evaluation and training of medical registration algorithms. Multiple examples, where datasets, annotations and an evaluation platform is already provided can be found at our learn2reg.grand-challenge.org website. Hence, SIG-BIR will support the organisation of future Learn2Reg Challenges or similar events and will be liasing closely with the MICCAI SIG on Challenges
In addition, we want to develop best practices and educational initiatives to facilitate entry into the field of image registration and open community for more diverse participation. In particular, we plan to enable research from low-income countries through sponsored access to GPU cloud computing for training registration networks in a federated data-privacy-preserving way.
Board Members
- Committee
- Members
- Advisors
Mattias Heinrich
PresidentUniversity of Lübeck, Germany
Tony Mok
Vice PresidentDAMO Academy, China
Junyu Chen
TreasurerJohns Hopkins University, U.S.A.
Miaomiao Zhang
SecretaryUniversity of Virginia, U.S.A.
Adrian Dalca
Educational DirectorCSAIL MIT, U.S.A.
Alessa Hering
MemberRadboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Enzo Ferrante
MemberCONICET- Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina
Veronika Zimmer
MemberTechnical University of Munich, Germany
Xiahai Zhuang
MemberThe Fudan University, China
Yihao Liu
MemberVanderbilt University, U.S.A.
Julia Schnabel
AdvisorHelmholtz Munich And Technical University of Munich, Germany
Stefan Klein
AdvisorErasmus MC, the Netherlands
Žiga Špiclin
AdvisorUniversity of Ljubljana, Slovenia
