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SAFE-Diff: Scale-Aware Attention and Feature-Dispersive Diffusion with Uncertainty Estimation for Contrast-Enhanced Breast MRI Synthesis

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-05-28 v2
Authors: Tianyu Zhang , Xinglong Liang , Jarek van Dijk , Luyi Han , Chunyao Lu , Antonio Portaluri , Xinghe Xie , Yaofei Duan , Nika Rasoolzadeh , Xin Wang , Yuan Gao , Muzhen He , Yue Sun , Jonas Teuwen , Tao Tan , Ritse Mann
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Abstract

Synthesizing high fidelity contrast enhanced MRI is clinically valuable for safer and more efficient breast cancer screening, yet remains challenging due to complex lesion textures and heterogeneous enhancement patterns.

Keywords

medical image analysis

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@article{arxiv.2605.25767,
  title  = {SAFE-Diff: Scale-Aware Attention and Feature-Dispersive Diffusion with Uncertainty Estimation for Contrast-Enhanced Breast MRI Synthesis},
  author = {Tianyu Zhang and Xinglong Liang and Jarek van Dijk and Luyi Han and Chunyao Lu and Antonio Portaluri and Xinghe Xie and Yaofei Duan and Nika Rasoolzadeh and Xin Wang and Yuan Gao and Muzhen He and Yue Sun and Jonas Teuwen and Tao Tan and Ritse Mann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.25767},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Early accepted by MICCAI 2026

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