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We present Distortion-Guided Restoration (DGR), a physics-informed hybrid CNN-diffusion framework for acquisition-free correction of severe susceptibility-induced distortions in prostate single-shot EPI diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI). DGR…

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Side-scan sonar (SSS) images are susceptible to motion-induced geometric distortion, which degrades their reliability for seabed interpretation and downstream tasks. Existing correction methods either exploit image-domain consistency…