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Existing methods of neuroimage registration typically require high quality scans and are time-consuming. We propose a simple and fast method which allows intra-patient multi-modal and time-series neuroimage registration as well as landmark identification (including commissures and superior/inferior brain landmarks) for sparse data. The method is based on elliptical approximation of the brain cortical surface in the vicinity of the midsagittal plane (MSP). Scan registration is performed by a 3D affine transformation based on parameters of the cortex elliptical fit and by aligning the MSPs. The landmarks are computed using a statistical localization method based on analysis of 53 structural scans without detectable pathology. The method is illustrated for multi-modal registration, analysis of hemorrhagic stroke time series, and ischemic stroke follow ups, as well as for localization of hardly visible or not discernible landmarks in sparse neuroimages. The method also enables a statistical localization of landmarks in sparse morphological/non-morphological images, where landmark points may be invisible.

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Recent works show that local descriptor learning benefits from the use of L 2 normalisation, however, an in-depth analysis of this effect lacks in the literature. In this paper, we investigate how L 2 normalisation affects the back-propagated descriptor gradients during training. Based on our observations, we propose HyNet, a new local descriptor that leads to stateof-the-art results in matching. HyNet introduces a hybrid similarity measure for triplet margin loss, a regularisation term constraining the descriptor norm, and a new network architecture that performs L 2 normalisation of all intermediate feature maps and the output descriptors. HyNet surpasses previous methods by a significant margin on standard benchmarks that include patch matching, verification, and retrieval, as well as outperforming full end-to-end methods on 3D reconstruction tasks.