Zero-shot Low-Field MRI Enhancement via Diffusion-Based Adaptive Contrast Transport

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01913v1
• Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:27:55 GMT
• Title: Zero-shot Low-Field MRI Enhancement via Diffusion-Based Adaptive Contrast Transport
• Authors: Muyu Liu, Chenhe Du, Xuanyu Tian, Qing Wu, Xiao Wang, Haonan Zhang, Hongjiang Wei, Yuyao Zhang,
• Abstract summary: Low-field (LF) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) democratizes access to diagnostic imaging.<n>DACT is a novel zero-shot framework that restores HF-quality images without paired supervision.<n>It achieves state-of-the-art performance, yielding reconstructions with superior structural detail and correct tissue contrast.
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• Abstract: Low-field (LF) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) democratizes access to diagnostic imaging but is fundamentally limited by low signal-to-noise ratio and significant tissue contrast distortion due to field-dependent relaxation dynamics. Reconstructing high-field (HF) quality images from LF data is a blind inverse problem, severely challenged by the scarcity of paired training data and the unknown, non-linear contrast transformation operator. Existing zero-shot methods, which assume simplified linear degradation, often fail to recover authentic tissue contrast. In this paper, we propose DACT(Diffusion-Based Adaptive Contrast Transport), a novel zero-shot framework that restores HF-quality images without paired supervision. DACT synergizes a pre-trained HF diffusion prior to ensure anatomical fidelity with a physically-informed adaptive forward model. Specifically, we introduce a differentiable Sinkhorn optimal transport module that explicitly models and corrects the intensity distribution shift between LF and HF domains during the reverse diffusion process. This allows the framework to dynamically learn the intractable contrast mapping while preserving topological consistency. Extensive experiments on simulated and real clinical LF datasets demonstrate that DACT achieves state-of-the-art performance, yielding reconstructions with superior structural detail and correct tissue contrast.

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