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Measurement Score-Based MRI Reconstruction with Automatic Coil Sensitivity Estimation

Image and Video Processing 2025-09-24 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

Diffusion-based inverse problem solvers (DIS) have recently shown outstanding performance in compressed-sensing parallel MRI reconstruction by combining diffusion priors with physical measurement models. However, they typically rely on pre-calibrated coil sensitivity maps (CSMs) and ground truth images, making them often impractical: CSMs are difficult to estimate accurately under heavy undersampling and ground-truth images are often unavailable. We propose Calibration-free Measurement Score-based diffusion Model (C-MSM), a new method that eliminates these dependencies by jointly performing automatic CSM estimation and self-supervised learning of measurement scores directly from k-space data. C-MSM reconstructs images by approximating the full posterior distribution through stochastic sampling over partial measurement posterior scores, while simultaneously estimating CSMs. Experiments on the multi-coil brain fastMRI dataset show that C-MSM achieves reconstruction performance close to DIS with clean diffusion priors -- even without access to clean training data and pre-calibrated CSMs.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2509.18402,
  title  = {Measurement Score-Based MRI Reconstruction with Automatic Coil Sensitivity Estimation},
  author = {Tingjun Liu and Chicago Y. Park and Yuyang Hu and Hongyu An and Ulugbek S. Kamilov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.18402},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

7 pages, 2 figures. Equal contribution: Tingjun Liu and Chicago Y. Park

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