arXiv Machine Learning

Piecewise Dynamic Diffusion Regularization for Reconstruction of Cardiac Cine MRI

arXiv:2607. 03299v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-time cardiac cine MRI enables visualization of the beating heart during free breathing, but severe undersampling and motion make reconstruction highly challenging.

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 AI
Jun 16

Temporally Consistent and Controllable Video Generation of 2D Cine CMR via Latent Space Motion Modeling

arXiv:2606. 14759v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cine cardiac magnetic resonance is the gold standard for assessing cardiac function, but the scarcity of public datasets limits the development of advanced data-driven models.

By Yiheng Cao (SyCoIA - IMT Mines Al\`es), Gustavo Andrade-Miranda (SyCoIA - IMT Mines Al\`es), Jiatian Zhang, Guillaume Sall\'e, Xin Gao
arXiv AI
Jul 7

Efficient Flow Matching for Sparse-View CT Reconstruction

arXiv:2603. 00205v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative models, particularly Diffusion Models (DM), have shown strong potential for Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction serving as expressive priors for solving ill-posed inverse problems.

By Jiayang Shi, Lincen Yang, Zhong Li, Tristan van Leeuwen, Daniel M. Pelt, K. Joost Batenburg
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

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
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 25

Anatomy-Aligned Surface Field Learning for Myocardial Reconstruction from Sparse Short-Axis Cine MRI

The paper presents an anatomy‑aligned surface learning framework for reconstructing patient‑specific 4D myocardial surfaces from sparsely sampled short‑axis cine MRI. By parameterizing epicardial and endocardial surfaces on a shared circumferential‑longitudinal UV domain, the method transforms irregular 3D reconstruction into structured coordinate‑field completion, enabling explicit correspondence across subjects and cardiac phases. Experiments on three public datasets show the approach outperforms mesh‑based and implicit methods, achieving Chamfer distances around 2.6–2.9 mm and preserving ventricular function with small errors in volume and ejection fraction.

By Xiaohan Yuan, Xuan Yang, Qingya Li, Yangang Wang, Lei Li