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The method integrates anatomical correspondences from a foundation landmark matching model with B-spline parameterized deformation fields to overcome local minima inherent in mutual information optimization. The framework employs Fourier-encoded multi-layer perceptrons to model B-spline deformation fields while ensuring physically plausible transformations, enabling robust multimodal registration between distorted DWI and anatomical references.\n                    <jats:italic>Main results.<\/jats:italic>\n                    Evaluation on brain and abdominal datasets demonstrated superior performance compared to established methods. The proposed approach achieved average Dice coefficients of 0.919 \u00b1 0.038 (brain) and 0.926 \u00b1 0.032 (abdomen), significantly outperforming all baseline methods. 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