APCReg: Anatomical-Prior-Guided Coarse-to-Fine CBCT--IOS Registration via Multi-View Projection and Reliability-Controlled Residual Correction

arXiv:2608.09993v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Registration between cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) and intraoral scans (IOS) is essential for patient-specific surgical planning. However, disparate imaging modalities, limited overlap, and large pose offsets make automated registration unreliable. Consequently, clinical registration remains dependent on conventional geometry pipelines and manual clinician adjustment. To address these challenges, we propose APCReg, an anatomical-prior-guided coarse-to-fine framework for global registration and reliability-controlled residual correction. Specifically, multi-view anatomical coarse registration (MACR) performs ordered orthogonal projection alignment (buccal, proximal, and occlusal) to decompose the six-degree-of-freedom search before three-dimensional refinement. Overlap-aware residual registration (OARR) combines shared KPConv features, a folded arch-length cue, overlap-gated cross-attention, and Sinkhorn matching. Finally, dental-arch-structured hypothesis selection evaluates diverse poses on held-out reliable correspondences, while a ground-truth-free coarse-retention guard conditionally retains a geometrically reliable coarse pose. On 60 held-out jaw pairs, APCReg achieves a submillimeter mean Chamfer distance of 0.87 mm and a Hausdorff distance of 2.92 mm under this evaluation protocol, and ranks first across the six reported metrics among the evaluated open-source baselines.

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Source: arXiv cs.CV | 2026-08-12