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Deformable registration and generative modelling of aortic anatomies by auto-decoders and neural ODEs

Tenderini, Riccardo  
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Pegolotti, Luca
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Kong, Fanwei
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December 3, 2025
npj Biological Physics and Mechanics

Accurate registration of vascular shapes is essential for comparing anatomical geometries, extracting reliable measurements, and generating realistic models in cardiovascular research. Conventional surface registration methods often face limitations in efficiency, scalability, and generalization across shape cohorts. In this work, we present AD–SVFD, a deep learning framework that simultaneously performs deformable registration of vascular geometries to a pre–defined reference anatomy and enables the synthesis of new shapes. AD–SVFD represents each geometry as a point cloud and models ambient deformations as solutions at unit time of ordinary differential equations (ODEs), whose time–independent right–hand sides are parameterized by neural networks. Registration is optimized by minimizing the Chamfer distance between deformed and reference geometries, while shape generation is achieved by integrating the ODE backward in time from sampled latent codes. A distinctive auto–decoder architecture associates each anatomy with a low–dimensional embedding, jointly optimized with the network parameters during training, and fine–tuned at inference, reducing computational overhead. Numerical experiments on healthy aortic anatomies demonstrate the capability of AD–SVFD to yield accurate approximations at competitive computational costs. Compared to existing approaches, our model offers an efficient, unified framework for processing multiple shapes and robustly generating plausible geometries.

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research article
DOI
10.1038/s44341-025-00029-z
Author(s)
Tenderini, Riccardo  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Pegolotti, Luca

Stanford University

Kong, Fanwei

Washington University in St. Louis

Pagani, Stefano

Politecnico di Milano

Regazzoni, Francesco

Politecnico di Milano

Marsden, Alison L.

Cardiovascular Institute of the South

Deparis, Simone  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Date Issued

2025-12-03

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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npj Biological Physics and Mechanics
Volume

2

Issue

1

Article Number

26

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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SCI-SB-SD  
FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung

200021_197021,200021_197021

National Science Foundation

2310909,2310909,2310909

National Institutes of Health

R01EB029362

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December 5, 2025
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