UniField: A Unified Field-Aware MRI Enhancement Framework

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09223v1
• Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:45:12 GMT
• Title: UniField: A Unified Field-Aware MRI Enhancement Framework
• Abstract summary: methodname is a unified framework integrating multiple modalities and enhancement tasks.<n>We exploit comprehensive 3D volumetric information by leveraging pre-trained 3D foundation models.<n>We organize and publicly release a comprehensive paired multi-field MRI dataset.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) field-strength enhancement holds immense value for both clinical diagnostics and advanced research. However, existing methods typically focus on isolated enhancement tasks, such as specific 64mT-to-3T or 3T-to-7T transitions using limited subject cohorts, thereby failing to exploit the shared degradation patterns inherent across different field strengths and severely restricting model generalization. To address this challenge, we propose \methodname, a unified framework integrating multiple modalities and enhancement tasks to mutually promote representation learning by exploiting these shared degradation characteristics. Specifically, our main contributions are threefold. Firstly, to overcome MRI data scarcity and capture continuous anatomical structures, \methodname departs from conventional methods that treat 3D MRI volumes as independent 2D slices. Instead, we directly exploit comprehensive 3D volumetric information by leveraging pre-trained 3D foundation models, thereby embedding generalized and robust structural representations to significantly boost enhancement performance. In addition, to mitigate the spectral bias of mainstream flow-matching models that often over-smooth high-frequency details, we explicitly incorporate the physical mechanisms of magnetic fields to introduce a Field-Aware Spectral Rectification Mechanism (FASRM), tailoring customized spectral corrections to distinct field strengths. Finally, to resolve the fundamental data bottleneck, we organize and publicly release a comprehensive paired multi-field MRI dataset, which is an order of magnitude larger than existing datasets. Extensive experiments demonstrate our method's superiority over state-of-the-art approaches, achieving an average improvement of approximately 1.81 dB in PSNR and 9.47\% in SSIM. Code will be released upon acceptance.

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