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Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging

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$\texttt{DisMorph}$: learning to disentangle technical distortions from true biological change

Aug 08, 2026

In longitudinal MRI, image registration struggles to distinguish geometric distortions caused by technical factors—such as gradient nonlinearity—from genuine anatomical changes, leading to biased morphometric measurements. To address this, this work proposes DisMorph, a novel framework that explicitly decouples technical distortions from biological structural changes during registration. DisMorph employs a generative model trained on synthetic data to predict two separate dense deformation fields corresponding to each component, thereby achieving disentanglement. Domain randomization is further integrated to enhance generalization across imaging protocols. Experiments demonstrate that the method more accurately detects anatomical changes in simulated data, correctly attributes alterations in real image pairs containing only distortion, and effectively identifies both disease-related structural changes and residual distortions in longitudinal Alzheimer’s disease datasets.

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$\texttt{DisMorph}$: learning to disentangle technical distortions from true biological change

Aug 08, 2026

In longitudinal MRI, image registration struggles to distinguish geometric distortions caused by technical factors—such as gradient nonlinearity—from genuine anatomical changes, leading to biased morphometric measurements. To address this, this work proposes DisMorph, a novel framework that explicitly decouples technical distortions from biological structural changes during registration. DisMorph employs a generative model trained on synthetic data to predict two separate dense deformation fields corresponding to each component, thereby achieving disentanglement. Domain randomization is further integrated to enhance generalization across imaging protocols. Experiments demonstrate that the method more accurately detects anatomical changes in simulated data, correctly attributes alterations in real image pairs containing only distortion, and effectively identifies both disease-related structural changes and residual distortions in longitudinal Alzheimer’s disease datasets.

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