Title:	Unsupervised Landmark detection
DNr:	Berzelius-2023-83
Project Type:	LiU Berzelius
Principal Investigator:	Markus Ekvall <marekv@kth.se>
Affiliation:	Kungliga Tekniska högskolan
Duration:	2023-03-30 – 2023-10-01
Classification:	10203
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Abstract

Spatial landmarks are useful for comparing histological heterogeneity between samples or sites, tracking regions of interest in microscopy, and registering tissue samples in a common coordinate framework. While unsupervised landmark detection has been studied previously, current methods are unsuitable for histological image data as they typically require a large number of images and do not account for non-linear deformations between tissue sections. We address these limitations by proposing a novel method for landmark detection and registration using neural-network-guided thin plate splines. We evaluate the proposed method on a wide range of datasets and show that it outperforms existing approaches in terms of both accuracy and stability.