quicksilver

This repository contains code and data for the following paper [arXiv]:

@misc{YangKwittStynerNiethammer17a,
    title        = {Quicksilver: Fast Predictive Image Registration - a Deep Learning Approach},
    author       = {X. Yang and R. Kwitt and M. Styner and M. Niethammer},
    year         = {2017},
    howpublished = {arXiv:1703.10908}}

Disclaimer

This software is published for academic and non-commercial use only (Apache-2.0)

Setup

This code is based or PyTorch and PyCA. It has been tested on Ubuntu 14.04/16.04 LTS with Python 2.7 (using Nvidia TitanX GPUs, with CUDA 8.0).

Dependencies:

PyTorch
PyCA.
CUDA
NiftyReg
scikit-image

Remark: NiftyReg is used for optional affine pre-alignment to the ICBM152 atlas before performing deformable registration. scikit-image is used for histogram equalization of the input images. Note: if you use Anaconda as the development platform, you can install scikit-image as suggested in the Anaconda page.

Exemplary system configuration

We recommend using Anaconda as your development platform, as this cleanly separates the Python/PyTorch installation (and all required libraries) from your system libraries. We exemplify such an installation below, assuming that the full installation is done under /scratch and CUDA (8.0) is installed under /usr/local/cuda.

Install Anaconda 4.3.1 (Python 2.7)

mkdir /scratch
cd /scratch
wget https://repo.continuum.io/archive/Anaconda2-4.3.1-Linux-x86_64.sh
bash Anaconda2-4.3.1-Linux-x86_64.sh

Follow the installation instructions. We assume that you installed Anaconda under /scratch/anaconda2.

Install PyCA

For our code we use a specific version of PyCA, so please use the following command to download the PyCA code:

cd /scratch
git clone git@bitbucket.org:scicompanat/pyca.git
cd ./pyca
git checkout 9954dd5319efaa0ac5f58977e57acf004ad73ed7
mkdir Build && cd Build
ccmake ...

Configure (according to your system settings) and compile PyCA. Note that we also made a PyCA code clone in quicksilver/3rd_party_software, so you could build PyCA using that.

Final configuration

Finally, we clone the Quicksilver repository as

cd /scratch
git clone https://github.com/rkwitt/quicksilver.git

and create a config file conda.cfg with the following content:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/cuda/bin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/cuda/lib64
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/scratch/pyca/Build/python_module
export CUDA_HOME=/usr/local/cuda
export PATH="/scratch/anaconda2/bin:$PATH"

Source this file with source conda.cfg to setup the environment.

Usage

Below is a simple quickstart guide on how to use Quicksilver for image-to-image registration (more to come).

Test data

Four (pre-aligned) example images (from CUMC) can be downloaded here.

Quick start

cd /scratch/quicksilver/code/applications
python qs_predict.py --moving-image moving_1.nii moving_2.nii moving_3.nii ...
                     --target-image target_1.nii target_2.nii target_3.nii ...
		             --output-prefix prefix_1 prefix_2 prefix_3 ...

Add the --use-correct option if want to use correction network.

To use multiple GPUs for prediction, add --n-GPU N option, where N indicates the number of GPUs to use. For maximum performance, combine this option with --batch-size K to specify the number of 3D patches as network input, and set K to be a multiple of N.

Example

In this example, we want to register m1.nii (moving) and m2.nii (target) from the provided example data. As the images are already pre-aligned, no additional affine alignment needs to be done.

cd /scratch2/quicksilver
tar xvfz CUMC_examples.tar.gz
cd code/applications
python qs_predict.py \
    --moving-image ../CUMC_examples/m1.nii \
    --target-image ../CUMC_examples/m2.nii \
    --output-prefix /tmp/

This will generate two files: /tmp/I1.mhd, /tmp/I1.raw (i.e., m1.nii aligned to m2.nii in the coordinate system of m2.nii).

Use the probablistic version of the network

Use quicksilver/code/applications/qs_predict_probablistic.py. There are two main differences compared to qs_predict.py. First, there is an additional option --samples that lets you decide the number of times to sample the network (default is 50). The variance of the deformation is samed as 'phiinv_var.mhd'. Second, there are no correction network for the probabilistic network.

Training a new network from start to finish

Do affine alignment and histogram equalization for the training images using quicksilver/code/tools/preprocessing/affine_and_histogram_eq.py. If using the default atlas (the MNI152 atlas as quicksilver/data/atlas/icbm152.nii), Make sure the training images are in the same coordinate system.
Perform registrations on the training data using quicksilver/code/tools/LDDMM_optimization/CAvmMatching.py
Gather the moving images, target images and initial momentum from LDDMM optimization for training the network. This is done by using quicksilver/code/tools/create_pth.py to gather the images and momentums into .pth.tar files. For example:

cd quicksilver/code/tools/
python ./create_pth.py --files moving_image_1 moving_image_2 moving_image_3 --output moving_image_all.pth.tar
python ./create_pth.py --files target_image_1 target_image_2 target_image_3 --output target_image_all.pth.tar
python ./create_pth.py --files momentum_1 momentum_2 momentum_3 --output momentum_all.pth.tar --momentum

You can seperated the images/momentums into several .pth.tar files to make each .pth.tar file size reasonable. For example:

# make training data part 1
python ./create_pth.py --files moving_image_1 moving_image_2 moving_image_3 --output moving_image_dataset_1.pth.tar
python ./create_pth.py --files target_image_1 target_image_2 target_image_3 --output target_image_dataset_1.pth.tar
python ./create_pth.py --files momentum_1 momentum_2 momentum_3 --output momentum_dataset_1.pth.tar --momentum

# make training data part 2
python ./create_pth.py --files moving_image_4 moving_image_5 moving_image_6 --output moving_image_dataset_2.pth.tar
python ./create_pth.py --files target_image_4 target_image_5 target_image_6 --output target_image_dataset_2.pth.tar
python ./create_pth.py --files momentum_4 momentum_5 momentum_6 --output momentum_dataset_2.pth.tar --momentum

Make sure to make the moving images/target images/momentums have the same order in the .pth.tar files.

Train the prediction network using quicksilver/code/tools/qs_train.py. An example will be

cd quicksilver/code/tools
python qs_train.py \
    --moving-image-dataset moving_image_dataset_1.pth.tar moving_image_dataset_2.pth.tar \
    --target-image-dataset target_image_dataset_1.pth.tar target_image_dataset_2.pth.tar \
    --deformation-parameter momentum_dataset_1.pth.tar momentum_dataset_2.pth.tar \
    --deformation-setting-file ./LDDMM_spec.yaml	\
    --output-name ./prediction_network_parameter.pth.tar

Here LDDMM_spec.yaml defines the setting for the LDDMM optimization algorithm. This information is stored in the network parameter file, and is used when using quicksilver to formulate LDDMM shooting.

Create warp-back target image files and momentum difference (between LDDMM optimization and prediction network) files. This is for training the correction network. This operation is done using quicksilver/code/tools/prepare_correction_training_data.py. An example would be (suppose we have the training files as moving_image_1.pth.tar/moving_image_2.pth.tar, target_image_dataset_1.pth.tar/target_image_dataset_2.pth.tar, and momentum_dataset_1.pth.tar/momentum_dataset_2.pth.tar):

cd quicksilver/code/tools
python prepare_correction_training_data.py \
    --moving-image-dataset moving_image_dataset_1.pth.tar moving_image_dataset_2.pth.tar \
    --target-image-dataset target_image_dataset_1.pth.tar target_image_dataset_2.pth.tar \
    --deformation-parameter momentum_dataset_1.pth.tar momentum_dataset_2.pth.tar \
    --network-parameter ./prediction_network_parameter.pth.tar \
    --warped-back-target-output warped_target_dataset_1.pth.tar warped_target_dataset_1.pth.tar \
    --momentum-residual momentum_diff_1.pth.tar momentum_diff_2.pth.tar

Train the correction network. The procedure is the same as step 4, except (as in this example here) change target_image_dataset_x.pth.tar to warped_target_dataset_x.pth.tar and momentum_dataset_1.pth.tar to momentum_diff_1.pth.tar, and of course change the output file name.

evaluate your result on the 4 test datasets

Perform prediction on the four test datasets (CUMC12, LPBA40, MGH10, IBSR18) use qs_predict.py
Calculate the label overlapping score for each test case using calculate_CUMC_overlap.m, calculate_LPBA_overlap.m, calculate_IBSR_overlap.m, calculate_MGH_overlap.m in the quicksilver/code/tools/evaluate_result/ directory
Plot the results and compared to the results in the Neuroimage paper by using quicksilver/code/tools/evaluate_result/generate_label_overlapping_plot.m

An example case to retrain the Quicksilver network:

Below shows an example to train the Quicksilver network using the OASIS dataset. Suppose everything happens in /mydirectory/, and quicksilver is downloaded at /mydirectory/quicksilver/

Download the OASIS dataset from TODO: add OASIS link here. Download the images into /mydirectory/OASIS/
Perform LDDMM registration using the files in /mydirectory/quicksilver/full_quicksilver_walkthrough/step2/. Specifically, run the fullowing bash shell script

cd /mydirectory/quicksilver/code/tools/LDDMM_optimization

for i in $(find /mydirectory/quicksilver/full_quicksilver_walkthrough/step2 -name 'deep_network*.yaml');
do
        python ./CAvmMatching.py $i;
done

Gather all registration resuls into .pth.tar files.

cd /mydirectory/quicksilver/code/tools/
bash /mydirectory/quicksilver/full_quicksilver_walkthrough/step3/gather_data.sh

Train the prediction network:

cd /mydirectory/quicksilver/code/tools/
python ./qs_train.py --moving-image-dataset \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_moving_1.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_moving_2.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_moving_3.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_moving_4.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_moving_5.pth.tar \
                     --target-image-dataset \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_target_1.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_target_2.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_target_3.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_target_4.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_target_5.pth.tar \
                     --deformation-parameter \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_m0_1.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_m0_2.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_m0_3.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_m0_4.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_m0_5.pth.tar \
                     --deformation-setting-file ./LDDMM_spec.yaml \
                     --output-name /mydirectory/prediction_network.pth.tar \
                     --epochs 10

Create the data needed to train the correction network

cd /mydirectory/quicksilver/code/tools/
python prepare_correction_training_data.py --moving-image-dataset \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_moving_1.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_moving_2.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_moving_3.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_moving_4.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_moving_5.pth.tar \
                     --target-image-dataset \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_target_1.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_target_2.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_target_3.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_target_4.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_target_5.pth.tar \
                     --deformation-parameter \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_m0_1.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_m0_2.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_m0_3.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_m0_4.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_m0_5.pth.tar \
                     --network-parameter /mydirectory/prediction_network.pth.tar \
                     --warped-back-target-output \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_target_warpback_1.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_target_warpback_2.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_target_warpback_3.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_target_warpback_4.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_target_warpback_5.pth.tar \
                     --momentum-residual \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_m0_diff_1.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_m0_diff_2.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_m0_diff_3.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_m0_diff_4.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_m0_diff_5.pth.tar

Train the correction network

cd /mydirectory/quicksilver/code/tools/
python ./qs_train.py --moving-image-dataset \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_moving_1.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_moving_2.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_moving_3.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_moving_4.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_moving_5.pth.tar \
                     --target-image-dataset \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_target_warpback_1.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_target_warpback_2.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_target_warpback_3.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_target_warpback_4.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_target_warpback_5.pth.tar \
                     --deformation-parameter \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_m0_diff_1.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_m0_diff_2.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_m0_diff_3.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_m0_diff_4.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_m0_diff_5.pth.tar \
                     --deformation-setting-file ./LDDMM_spec.yaml \
                     --output-name /mydirectory/correction_network.pth.tar \
                     --epochs 10

If you want to train the probablistic version of the network, change the command in step 4 into

cd /mydirectory/quicksilver/code/tools/
python ./qs_train.py --moving-image-dataset \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_moving_1.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_moving_2.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_moving_3.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_moving_4.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_moving_5.pth.tar \
                     --target-image-dataset \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_target_1.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_target_2.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_target_3.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_target_4.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_target_5.pth.tar \
                     --deformation-parameter \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_m0_1.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_m0_2.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_m0_3.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_m0_4.pth.tar \
                     /mydirectory/OASIS/OASIS_m0_5.pth.tar \
                     --deformation-setting-file ./LDDMM_spec.yaml \
                     --output-name /mydirectory/prediction_network.pth.tar \
                     --epochs 10 \ 
                     --use-dropout

and skip step 5 and 6.

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Quick start

Example

Use the probablistic version of the network

Training a new network from start to finish

evaluate your result on the 4 test datasets

An example case to retrain the Quicksilver network:

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Disclaimer

Setup

Exemplary system configuration

Usage

Test data

Quick start

Example

Use the probablistic version of the network

Training a new network from start to finish

evaluate your result on the 4 test datasets

An example case to retrain the Quicksilver network: