arXiv Computer Vision

Conditional Flow Matching for Cross-Field MRI Harmonisation

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

FlowMoDL: Model-Based Deep Learning with Conjugate-Gradient Data Consistency for Highly Accelerated 4D Flow MRI Reconstruction

FlowMoDL is an unrolled neural network designed for highly accelerated 4D flow MRI reconstruction, optimizing both anatomical magnitude and phase-derived velocity accuracy. It alternates a learned (3+1)D spatiotemporal denoiser with conjugate‑gradient data‑consistency updates, using a dual‑pathway conditioning scheme to handle acceleration factors from 10× to 50×. Trained with a deep‑supervision composite loss that penalizes velocity magnitude and angular errors, FlowMoDL outperforms classical and deep‑learning baselines on the multi‑center CMRx4DFlow dataset, achieving superior gradient‑step efficiency and robust convergence across all acceleration factors.

By Tristan Gottwald, Michelle Bruch, Mubashir-Ul Hassan, Fatma Alickovic, Milan Kloiber, Daniel Tenbrinck, Torsten Panholzer, Melanie Schaller, Jana Hutter
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

FLAT: FLow-Aligned Training of Unrolled Networks for MRI Reconstruction

FLAT: FLow-Aligned Training of Unrolled Networks for MRI Reconstruction proposes a new training method for unrolled neural networks used in MRI reconstruction. By interpreting unrolled networks as discretizations of conditional probability flows, the authors derive cascade parameters from Flow Matching and align intermediate reconstructions with the ideal Flow Matching trajectory. Experiments on three MRI datasets demonstrate that FLAT stabilizes the reconstruction trajectory across sub-networks and improves the final reconstruction quality.

By Kehan Qi, Saumya Gupta, Xiaoling Hu, Qingqiao Hu, Weimin Lyu, Yicun Wang, Chao Chen
arXiv Computer Vision
1d ago

Data-Efficient Networks for Multi-Contrast MRI Reconstruction based on a Generalized Content/Style Prior

arXiv:2609.01959v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-contrast MR scans contain redundant structural information that can be leveraged during reconstruction and potentially accelerate acquisition t...

By Chinmay Rao, Efe Il{\i}cak, Matthias J. P. van Osch, Mariya Doneva, Laurens Beljaards, Navid Jabarimani, Nicola Pezzotti, Marius Staring
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Compositional Cross-Modality Translation via Whole-Volume Multitask Latent Flow Matching

arXiv:2608. 08135v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-modality medical image translation can reduce the burden of multi-modal acquisitions, yet the field remains constrained by two coupled limitations: methods operate on 2D slices or 3D patches rather than whole volumes, and train a separate model for each translation task.

By Daniele Molino, Alessio Zoboli, Camillo Maria Caruso, Valerio Guarrasi, Paolo Soda
arXiv AI
Aug 24

Consistency Models for Fast MRI Reconstruction Using Regularization by Denoising

The paper introduces CM-RED, a fast MRI reconstruction method that combines a pretrained consistency model with the regularization by denoising framework. By integrating controlled noise injection into accelerated proximal gradient updates, CM-RED achieves high‑quality reconstructions on fastMRI knee and brain datasets with only four network function evaluations. It consistently outperforms existing diffusion‑ and consistency‑based approaches in quantitative metrics, visual fidelity, and robustness to hyperparameter changes.

By Merve G\"ulle, Junno Yun, Ya\c{s}ar Utku Al\c{c}alar, Mehmet Ak\c{c}akaya
arXiv Computer Vision
4d ago

Physics-Guided Flow Matching for CT Image Reconstruction

The paper introduces a high‑resolution Rectified Flow Matching model trained on 256×256 chest CT images to serve as a generative prior for CT reconstruction. A two‑stage training strategy—initial strong anatomically informed augmentation followed by fine‑tuning—helps mitigate overfitting and improve structural fidelity. When evaluated on various CT inverse problems, Flow Matching‑based reconstruction methods outperform diffusion‑based algorithms in PSNR, SSIM, and perceptual quality while requiring fewer sampling steps.

By Davide Evangelista