# Indescribable Multi-modal Spatial Evaluator

## TL;DR

This paper introduces IMSE, a self-supervised multi-modal image registration method that uses a novel spatial evaluator and style enhancement to improve alignment across different imaging modalities.

## Contribution

The study presents a new self-supervised approach, IMSE, with a style enhancement technique, Shuffle Remap, to improve multi-modal image registration accuracy and robustness.

## Key findings

- IMSE outperforms existing registration methods on T1-T2 and CT-MRI datasets.
- Shuffle Remap enhances IMSE's ability to predict spatial differences across unseen distributions.
- IMSE can be integrated into traditional registration workflows and used for visualization.

## Abstract

Multi-modal image registration spatially aligns two images with different distributions. One of its major challenges is that images acquired from different imaging machines have different imaging distributions, making it difficult to focus only on the spatial aspect of the images and ignore differences in distributions. In this study, we developed a self-supervised approach, Indescribable Multi-model Spatial Evaluator (IMSE), to address multi-modal image registration. IMSE creates an accurate multi-modal spatial evaluator to measure spatial differences between two images, and then optimizes registration by minimizing the error predicted of the evaluator. To optimize IMSE performance, we also proposed a new style enhancement method called Shuffle Remap which randomizes the image distribution into multiple segments, and then randomly disorders and remaps these segments, so that the distribution of the original image is changed. Shuffle Remap can help IMSE to predict the difference in spatial location from unseen target distributions. Our results show that IMSE outperformed the existing methods for registration using T1-T2 and CT-MRI datasets. IMSE also can be easily integrated into the traditional registration process, and can provide a convenient way to evaluate and visualize registration results. IMSE also has the potential to be used as a new paradigm for image-to-image translation. Our code is available at https://github.com/Kid-Liet/IMSE.