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Measurement Score-Based MRI Reconstruction with Automatic Coil Sensitivity Estimation

Published: September 22, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2509.18402v1

By: Tingjun Liu , Chicago Y. Park , Yuyang Hu and more

Potential Business Impact:

Makes MRI scans faster and clearer without extra steps.

Business Areas:
Test and Measurement Data and Analytics

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.

Country of Origin
🇺🇸 United States

Page Count
7 pages

Category
Electrical Engineering and Systems Science:
Image and Video Processing