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author Wang, Zi
Huang, Mingkai
Shi, Zhang
Hu, Hongjie
Lan, Lan
Zhang, Hui
Li, Yan
Hu, Xi
Lu, Qing
Zhu, Zongming
Yao, Qiong
Dai, Yuxiang
Wang, Fanwen
Wu, Yinzhe
Lyu, Jun
Gao, Qianqian
Xu, Guangming
Zhang, Zhenxuan
Zhang, Haosen
Li, Qing
Wang, Guangming
He, Tianxing
Lan, Lizhen
Li, Siyue
Xue, Le
Sun, Mengting
Lyu, Yuntong
Hu, Junpu
Zhu, Jiayu
Ahmad, Rizwan
Bu, Zhengyu
Qian, Xianling
Cai, Guanke
Cao, Ruiyu
Cai, Weirui
Xu, Chang
Ren, Yuyang
Yu, Feidan
Ma, Siying
Xu, Ziqiang
Chen, Xinran
Hua, Sha
Kim, Daniel
Zhang, Yajing
Ouyang, Chen
Bai, Wenjia
Qin, Jing
Yang, Yucheng
Rueckert, Daniel
Wang, He
Tao, Qian
Prieto, Claudia
Markl, Michael
Young, Alistair
Wu, Lianming
Wang, Shuo
Qin, Chen
Zeng, Mengsu
Hu, Xihong
Xu, Haibo
Qu, Xiaobo
Li, Hao
Yang, Guang
Wang, Chengyan
author_facet Wang, Zi
Huang, Mingkai
Shi, Zhang
Hu, Hongjie
Lan, Lan
Zhang, Hui
Li, Yan
Hu, Xi
Lu, Qing
Zhu, Zongming
Yao, Qiong
Dai, Yuxiang
Wang, Fanwen
Wu, Yinzhe
Lyu, Jun
Gao, Qianqian
Xu, Guangming
Zhang, Zhenxuan
Zhang, Haosen
Li, Qing
Wang, Guangming
He, Tianxing
Lan, Lizhen
Li, Siyue
Xue, Le
Sun, Mengting
Lyu, Yuntong
Hu, Junpu
Zhu, Jiayu
Ahmad, Rizwan
Bu, Zhengyu
Qian, Xianling
Cai, Guanke
Cao, Ruiyu
Cai, Weirui
Xu, Chang
Ren, Yuyang
Yu, Feidan
Ma, Siying
Xu, Ziqiang
Chen, Xinran
Hua, Sha
Kim, Daniel
Zhang, Yajing
Ouyang, Chen
Bai, Wenjia
Qin, Jing
Yang, Yucheng
Rueckert, Daniel
Wang, He
Tao, Qian
Prieto, Claudia
Markl, Michael
Young, Alistair
Wu, Lianming
Wang, Shuo
Qin, Chen
Zeng, Mengsu
Hu, Xihong
Xu, Haibo
Qu, Xiaobo
Li, Hao
Yang, Guang
Wang, Chengyan
contents Multimodal cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging provides comprehensive and non-invasive insights into cardiovascular disease (CVD) diagnosis and underlying mechanisms. Despite decades of advancements, its widespread clinical adoption remains constrained by prolonged scan times, inconsistent image quality, and heterogeneity across medical environments. This underscores the urgent need for a generalist reconstruction foundation model for ultra-fast CMR imaging, one formulated for physics-constrained inverse problems in the sensor (k-space) domain, capable of adapting across diverse imaging scenarios and serving as the essential substrate for all downstream analyses. To enable this goal, we curate MMCMR-427K, the largest and most comprehensive multimodal CMR k-space database to date, comprising 427,465 multi-coil k-space data paired with structured metadata across 13 international centers, 12 CMR modalities, 15 scanners spanning four field strengths, and 17 CVD categories in populations across three continents. Building on this unprecedented resource, we introduce CardioMM, a generalist reconstruction foundation model capable of dynamically adapting to heterogeneous fast CMR imaging scenarios. CardioMM unifies semantic contextual understanding with physics-informed data consistency to deliver robust reconstructions across varied scanners, protocols, and patient presentations. Comprehensive evaluations demonstrate that CardioMM achieves state-of-the-art performance across internal centers and exhibits strong zero-shot generalization to unseen external settings. Importantly, CardioMM supports acceleration up to 24x, providing the first evidence that such extreme acquisition speed can preserve key cardiac phenotypes, quantitative myocardial biomarkers, and diagnostic image quality without compromising clinical integrity.
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spellingShingle Enabling Ultra-Fast Cardiovascular Imaging Across Heterogeneous Clinical Environments with A Generalist Foundation Model and Multimodal Database
Wang, Zi
Huang, Mingkai
Shi, Zhang
Hu, Hongjie
Lan, Lan
Zhang, Hui
Li, Yan
Hu, Xi
Lu, Qing
Zhu, Zongming
Yao, Qiong
Dai, Yuxiang
Wang, Fanwen
Wu, Yinzhe
Lyu, Jun
Gao, Qianqian
Xu, Guangming
Zhang, Zhenxuan
Zhang, Haosen
Li, Qing
Wang, Guangming
He, Tianxing
Lan, Lizhen
Li, Siyue
Xue, Le
Sun, Mengting
Lyu, Yuntong
Hu, Junpu
Zhu, Jiayu
Ahmad, Rizwan
Bu, Zhengyu
Qian, Xianling
Cai, Guanke
Cao, Ruiyu
Cai, Weirui
Xu, Chang
Ren, Yuyang
Yu, Feidan
Ma, Siying
Xu, Ziqiang
Chen, Xinran
Hua, Sha
Kim, Daniel
Zhang, Yajing
Ouyang, Chen
Bai, Wenjia
Qin, Jing
Yang, Yucheng
Rueckert, Daniel
Wang, He
Tao, Qian
Prieto, Claudia
Markl, Michael
Young, Alistair
Wu, Lianming
Wang, Shuo
Qin, Chen
Zeng, Mengsu
Hu, Xihong
Xu, Haibo
Qu, Xiaobo
Li, Hao
Yang, Guang
Wang, Chengyan
Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Medical Physics
Multimodal cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging provides comprehensive and non-invasive insights into cardiovascular disease (CVD) diagnosis and underlying mechanisms. Despite decades of advancements, its widespread clinical adoption remains constrained by prolonged scan times, inconsistent image quality, and heterogeneity across medical environments. This underscores the urgent need for a generalist reconstruction foundation model for ultra-fast CMR imaging, one formulated for physics-constrained inverse problems in the sensor (k-space) domain, capable of adapting across diverse imaging scenarios and serving as the essential substrate for all downstream analyses. To enable this goal, we curate MMCMR-427K, the largest and most comprehensive multimodal CMR k-space database to date, comprising 427,465 multi-coil k-space data paired with structured metadata across 13 international centers, 12 CMR modalities, 15 scanners spanning four field strengths, and 17 CVD categories in populations across three continents. Building on this unprecedented resource, we introduce CardioMM, a generalist reconstruction foundation model capable of dynamically adapting to heterogeneous fast CMR imaging scenarios. CardioMM unifies semantic contextual understanding with physics-informed data consistency to deliver robust reconstructions across varied scanners, protocols, and patient presentations. Comprehensive evaluations demonstrate that CardioMM achieves state-of-the-art performance across internal centers and exhibits strong zero-shot generalization to unseen external settings. Importantly, CardioMM supports acceleration up to 24x, providing the first evidence that such extreme acquisition speed can preserve key cardiac phenotypes, quantitative myocardial biomarkers, and diagnostic image quality without compromising clinical integrity.
title Enabling Ultra-Fast Cardiovascular Imaging Across Heterogeneous Clinical Environments with A Generalist Foundation Model and Multimodal Database
topic Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Medical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.21652