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ContiLNN: Mitigating Slice Sampling Discontinuity with Liquid Neural Networks for Medical Image Restoration

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ContiLNN augments 2‑D medical image restoration backbones with bidirectional closed‑form continuous‑time (Bi‑CfC) modules to model cross‑slice relationships while preserving in‑plane feature extraction. The method uses slice‑index intervals to modulate gates based on local features and hidden states, enabling propagation that adapts to slice‑sampling variations without numerical ODE integration. Across CT denoising, MRI super‑resolution, and PET restoration tasks, ContiLNN outperforms Restore‑RWKV and Bi‑GRU baselines in PSNR, RMSE, latency, and GPU memory usage, demonstrating improved fidelity and data efficiency.

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