Sampling-Pattern-Agnostic MRI Reconstruction through Adaptive Consistency Enforcement with Diffusion Model

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a powerful, non-invasive diagnostic tool; however, its clinical applicability is constrained by prolonged acquisition times. Whilst present deep learning-based approaches have demonstrated potential in expediting MRI processes, these methods usually rely on known sampling patterns and exhibit limited generalisability to novel patterns. In the paper, we propose a sampling-pattern-agnostic MRI reconstruction method via a diffusion model through adaptive consistency enforcement. Our approach effectively reconstructs high-fidelity images with varied under-sampled acquisitions, generalising across contrasts and acceleration factors regardless of sampling trajectories. We train and validate across all contrasts in the MICCAI 2024 Cardiac MRI Reconstruction Challenge (CMRxRecon) dataset for the ``Random sampling CMR reconstruction'' task. Evaluation results indicate that our proposed method significantly outperforms baseline methods.

ATAC-Net: Zoomed view works better for Anomaly Detection

The application of deep learning in visual anomaly detection has gained widespread popularity due to its potential use in quality control and manufacturing. Current standard methods are Unsupervised, where a clean dataset is utilised to detect deviations and flag anomalies during testing. However, incorporating a few samples when the type of anomalies is known beforehand can significantly enhance performance. Thus, we propose ATAC-Net, a framework that trains to detect anomalies from a minimal set of known prior anomalies. Furthermore, we introduce attention-guided cropping, which provides a closer view of suspect regions during the training phase. Our framework is a reliable and easy-to-understand system for detecting anomalies, and we substantiate its superiority to some of the current state-of-the-art techniques in a comparable setting.