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Enhancing Ultra-low-field MRI with Segmentation-guided Adversarial Learning

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-05-28 v1 Medical Physics

Abstract

Ultra-low-field (ULF) MRI offers portable and low-cost imaging but suffers from poor image quality. To address this, we present our submission to the 2025 ULF Enhancement Challenge (ULF-EnC), where the goal is to synthesise high-field-like MRIs from 64 mT scans. Our pipeline enhances ULF MRI through a combination of anatomical conditioning and model ensembling. We first generate tissue segmentation priors using a Swin UNETR trained solely on challenge-provided data. These priors condition two independent enhancement networks - a CycleGAN and a transformer-based residual enhancement model (T-REX) - each trained to synthesise 3 T-like MRIs. Outputs from both models are combined using a weighted average. Our approach produces enhanced MRIs that were comparable to high-field scans both quantitatively and qualitatively.

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@article{arxiv.2605.28016,
  title  = {Enhancing Ultra-low-field MRI with Segmentation-guided Adversarial Learning},
  author = {James Grover and Andrew Phair and Michael Ferraro and David E. J. Waddington},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.28016},
  year   = {2026}
}