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Bilevel Optimized Implicit Neural Representation for Scan-Specific Accelerated MRI Reconstruction

Image and Video Processing 2026-04-24 v1 Signal Processing

Abstract

Deep Learning (DL) methods can reconstruct highly accelerated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, but they rely on application-specific large training datasets and often generalize poorly to out-of-distribution data. Self-supervised deep learning algorithms perform scan-specific reconstructions, but still require complicated hyperparameter tuning based on the acquisition and often offer limited acceleration. This work develops a bilevel-optimized implicit neural representation (INR) approach for scan-specific MRI reconstruction. The method automatically optimizes the hyperparameters for a given acquisition protocol, enabling a tailored reconstruction without training data. The proposed algorithm uses Gaussian process regression to optimize INR hyperparameters, accommodating various acquisitions. The INR includes a trainable positional encoder for high-dimensional feature embedding and a small multilayer perceptron for decoding. The bilevel optimization is computationally efficient, requiring only a few minutes per typical 2D Cartesian scan. On scanner hardware, the subsequent scan-specific reconstruction-using offline-optimized hyperparameters-is completed within seconds and achieves improved image quality compared to previous model-based and self-supervised learning methods.

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@article{arxiv.2502.21292,
  title  = {Bilevel Optimized Implicit Neural Representation for Scan-Specific Accelerated MRI Reconstruction},
  author = {Hongze Yu and Jeffrey A. Fessler and Yun Jiang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.21292},
  year   = {2026}
}

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10 pages, 8 figures

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