The paper introduces Latent Drift, a generative forecasting framework that predicts slow-evolving neurodegenerative disease progression by learning changes in a compressed semantic representation rather than full-resolution anatomy. It addresses two failure modes—identity collapse and continuous interpolation trap—by removing pixel-level identity from the prediction target and applying Finite Scalar Quantization to suppress high-frequency nuisance fluctuations. Experiments on longitudinal 3D brain MRI demonstrate that Latent Drift outperforms diffusion and autoregressive transformer baselines in both generative fidelity and clinically relevant metrics.
By Yuxiang Feng, Juncheng Wang, Chao Xu, Wenlong Hou, Huihan Wang, Yijie Qian, Yang Liu, Baigui Sun, Yong Liu, Shujun Wang
arXiv:2603. 04438v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Fully unsupervised deep generative modeling (FU-DGM) offers significant potential for compressively sampled magnetic resonance imaging (CS-MRI) reconstruction.
By Qingyong Zhu, Yumin Tan, Xiang Gu, Dong Liang
arXiv:2609.17169v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Forecasting anatomical changes such as tumor growth and neurodegeneration is a challenging generative vision task. Morphological evolution is subtle...
By Anna Oliveras, Roger Mar\'i, Rafael Redondo, Oriol Guardi\`a, Cynthia Ifeyinwa Ugwu, Ana Tost, Bhalaji Nagarajan, Carolina Migliorelli, Vicent Ribas, Petia Radeva
SRUG is a supervised, fusion‑driven generator network designed for paired MRI sequence synthesis. It eliminates the generator‑discriminator competition by directly learning a deterministic source‑to‑target mapping, using a residual encoder, full‑resolution stem, and a nested multi‑scale decoder to preserve structural fidelity. Experiments on BraTS 2023 and IXI demonstrate competitive reconstruction quality and cross‑dataset transferability, supporting direct supervised generation as a practical approach for medical image translation.
By Xihe Qiu, Yang Dai, Xiaoyu Tan, Sijia Li, Fenghao Sun, Lu Gan, Liang Liu
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
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
Hankel Subspace Self‑Supervised Reconstruction (HSSRecon) is a scan‑specific framework for parallel MRI that partitions data by acquisition units before Hankel lifting and normalizes repeated Hankel copies. Instead of predicting missing k‑space directly, the network learns a compact complex‑valued Hankel subspace operator, and reconstruction is performed with a conjugate‑gradient solver enforcing hard data consistency. The method provides theoretical guarantees on uniqueness and error bounds, and demonstrates competitive performance on fastMRI brain data across multiple contrasts and sampling masks.
By Mingyu Hu, Siquan Zhu, Xijun Zhong, Qiegen Liu
arXiv:2606. 00078v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Numerous modern applications in signal processing and medical imaging necessitate acquiring high-dimensional signals under tight resource constraints.
By Roman Pavelkin, Luis A. Zavala-Mondragon, Christiaan G. A. Viviers, Fons van der Sommen
arXiv:2602. 18400v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Missing data problems, such as missing modalities in multi-modal brain MRI and missing slices in cardiac MRI, pose significant challenges in clinical practice.
By Junkai Liu, Nay Aung, Theodoros N. Arvanitis, Joao A. C. Lima, Steffen E. Petersen, Le Zhang
Hankel Subspace Self-Supervised Reconstruction (HSSRecon) is a scan‑specific framework for parallel MRI that partitions data by acquisition units before Hankel lifting and normalizes repeated Hankel copies. Instead of directly predicting missing k‑space data, the network learns a compact complex‑valued Hankel subspace operator, and reconstruction is performed with a conjugate‑gradient solver enforcing hard data consistency. The method is theoretically justified with proofs of positive definiteness, uniqueness, and error bounds, and demonstrates competitive performance on fastMRI brain data across multiple contrasts and sampling masks.
arXiv:2603. 05693v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate longitudinal analysis of brain MRI is often hindered by evolving lesions, which bias automated neuroimaging pipelines.
By Zahra Karimaghaloo, Dumitru Fetco, Haz-Edine Assemlal, Hassan Rivaz, Douglas L. Arnold
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