Multiscale Structure-Guided Latent Diffusion for Multimodal MRI Translation

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Main Authors: Lin, Jianqiang, Shen, Zhiqiang, Cao, Peng, Yang, Jinzhu, Zaiane, Osmar R., Liu, Xiaoli
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author Lin, Jianqiang
Shen, Zhiqiang
Cao, Peng
Yang, Jinzhu
Zaiane, Osmar R.
Liu, Xiaoli
author_facet Lin, Jianqiang
Shen, Zhiqiang
Cao, Peng
Yang, Jinzhu
Zaiane, Osmar R.
Liu, Xiaoli
contents Although diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) translation tasks, existing methods still tend to suffer from anatomical inconsistencies or degraded texture details when handling arbitrary missing-modality scenarios. To address these issues, we propose a latent diffusion-based multi-modal MRI translation framework, termed MSG-LDM. By leveraging the available modalities, the proposed method infers complete structural information, which preserves reliable boundary details. Specifically, we introduce a style--structure disentanglement mechanism in the latent space, which explicitly separates modality-specific style features from shared structural representations, and jointly models low-frequency anatomical layouts and high-frequency boundary details in a multi-scale feature space. During the structure disentanglement stage, high-frequency structural information is explicitly incorporated to enhance feature representations, guiding the model to focus on fine-grained structural cues while learning modality-invariant low-frequency anatomical representations. Furthermore, to reduce interference from modality-specific styles and improve the stability of structure representations, we design a style consistency loss and a structure-aware loss. Extensive experiments on the BraTS2020 and WMH datasets demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms existing MRI synthesis approaches, particularly in reconstructing complete structures. The source code is publicly available at https://github.com/ziyi-start/MSG-LDM.
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spellingShingle Multiscale Structure-Guided Latent Diffusion for Multimodal MRI Translation
Lin, Jianqiang
Shen, Zhiqiang
Cao, Peng
Yang, Jinzhu
Zaiane, Osmar R.
Liu, Xiaoli
Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Although diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) translation tasks, existing methods still tend to suffer from anatomical inconsistencies or degraded texture details when handling arbitrary missing-modality scenarios. To address these issues, we propose a latent diffusion-based multi-modal MRI translation framework, termed MSG-LDM. By leveraging the available modalities, the proposed method infers complete structural information, which preserves reliable boundary details. Specifically, we introduce a style--structure disentanglement mechanism in the latent space, which explicitly separates modality-specific style features from shared structural representations, and jointly models low-frequency anatomical layouts and high-frequency boundary details in a multi-scale feature space. During the structure disentanglement stage, high-frequency structural information is explicitly incorporated to enhance feature representations, guiding the model to focus on fine-grained structural cues while learning modality-invariant low-frequency anatomical representations. Furthermore, to reduce interference from modality-specific styles and improve the stability of structure representations, we design a style consistency loss and a structure-aware loss. Extensive experiments on the BraTS2020 and WMH datasets demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms existing MRI synthesis approaches, particularly in reconstructing complete structures. The source code is publicly available at https://github.com/ziyi-start/MSG-LDM.
title Multiscale Structure-Guided Latent Diffusion for Multimodal MRI Translation
topic Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12581