arXiv AI By Tomas Guija-Valiente, Blanca Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Norberto Malpica, Angel Torrado-Carvajal

RARF: Region-Aware Rectified Flows for 3D Brain MRI Inpainting

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RARF is a task‑agnostic, region‑aware rectified flow framework designed for 3D brain MRI inpainting. It limits stochastic interpolation to the inpainting region while keeping observed voxels fixed, using a 3D neural network that processes a partially voided image, Gaussian noise, a mask, and a timestep. The model is trained with masked flow‑matching and reconstruction‑consistency objectives, and during inference it transports noise toward a plausible reconstruction that preserves anatomical consistency, achieving competitive results on the BraTS Inpainting Challenge 2026.

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