arXiv:2609.00960v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Magnetic resonance images of the same subject look markedly different across field strengths, which complicates the comparison and pooling of data acro...
arXiv:2608.28714v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Objective: Deep learning accelerates brain MRI four- to tenfold, but models can erase lesions or synthesize false tissue - failures pixel-averaged me...
The paper introduces a 3D residual wavelet diffusion model for super‑resolving ultra low‑field MRI scans. By using a lossless wavelet reparameterisation, residual shifting, and domain randomisation, the method fits whole‑brain data on a single GPU, speeds up sampling, and generalises across scanners. It achieves volumetric accuracy comparable to leading regression approaches while producing per‑voxel uncertainty maps that reveal under‑determined regions and preserves disease‑relevant atrophy in cognitively impaired subjects.
arXiv:2606. 04419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: MRI provides excellent soft-tissue contrast without ionizing radiation, but long acquisition times increase patient discomfort while also raising exam costs and limiting scanner throughput.
The study introduces ART‑Net, an anatomy‑aware residual attention network designed to refine four‑fold accelerated SENSE brain MRI. In a prospective paired study of 80 participants, ART‑Net achieved the highest peak signal‑to‑noise ratio and structural similarity index among evaluated methods, and it preserved anatomical fidelity with superior Dice coefficients for medial temporal and whole‑brain structures. Radiologist assessments also indicated improved gradient fidelity, regional contrast, and overall structural quality.
arXiv:2606. 07381v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background and Purpose: Automated detection of focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) requires large volumes of voxelwise lesion-delineated MRI data, which are difficult to acquire.
arXiv:2609.00593v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neuroradiologists rarely read a brain MRI in isolation, yet automated brain-MRI report generation has been built almost entirely for single studies. Te...
arXiv:2608.30835v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background and Objective: Quality control is a prerequisite for whole-slide image analysis, yet the benchmarks on which quality-control methods are c...
SliceBridge is a new framework for repairing corrupted slice intervals in T1‑weighted MRI by using rectified flow matching conditioned on surrounding intact slices and their relative positions. It enforces through‑plane consistency by coupling slices within the interval through shared noise, flow time, and synchronized sampling, then reinserts the restored interval without altering other slices. In experiments on 9,877 brain MRIs and 581 external subjects, SliceBridge reduced slice‑to‑slice error by 32.9%–41.3% and improved SSIM across interval lengths, while lowering downstream segmentation volume estimation error from 1.95% to 1.05%.
The paper introduces a transfer‑learning framework that pre‑trains an implicit neural representation (INR) on a high‑resolution diffusion MRI template and then adapts it to individual subjects through registration and fine‑tuning. This approach enables native single‑subject super‑resolution, achieving a 4× through‑plane up‑sampling from 5 mm to 1.25 mm on Human Connectome Project data. Compared to a recent baseline, the method reduces NRMSE by 36–49 % and increases FSIM by 24–43 %, while training 6× faster and outperforming other INR‑based techniques on both image quality and domain‑specific metrics.
The paper proposes a lightweight residual refiner that post‑processes the outputs of a two‑model ensemble for brain‑MRI inpainting. By training the refiner with an λ‑weighted combination of α loss and SSIM, the authors achieve a modest but statistically significant SSIM improvement (from 0.8767 to 0.8780 on a held‑out set) without altering MSE. Ablations show that adding a third model or using classical unsharp masking does not yield similar gains, indicating the improvement comes from learned sharpening rather than generic post‑processing.
arXiv:2608. 10295v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Frozen foundation-model (FM) embeddings are increasingly used as off-the-shelf brain-MRI representations, on the assumption that they capture anatomy.