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Orientation-Aware Diffusion Super-Resolution for 3T-Like Fetal MRI from Routine 1.5T Scans.

Xinliu Zhong^1,2, Ruiying Liu², Guohao Lin²

¹Department of Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Proceedings of Machine Learning Research

|May 8, 2026

Summary

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This study introduces a novel framework to enhance fetal MRI quality from 1.5T scans, achieving 3T-like resolution. This improves fetal brain morphometric analysis, crucial for assessing early development.

Keywords:

Diffusion Models Fetal Neuroimaging Image Enhancement MRI

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Neuroimaging
Biomedical Engineering

Background:

Fetal MRI is vital for assessing early brain development.
3T MRI offers superior detail but faces motion and artifact challenges in fetal imaging.
1.5T MRI provides motion tolerance but yields lower image quality, impacting morphometric analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a method for synthesizing 3T-like fetal brain MRI contrast from 1.5T scans.
To bridge the quality gap between 1.5T and 3T fetal MRI without compromising motion robustness.
To enable reliable morphometric analysis in routine clinical fetal MRI acquisitions.

Main Methods:

An orientation-aware diffusion super-resolution framework utilizing a Swin-UNet backbone.
Integration of gated FiLM-based orientation embeddings and a residual error-shifting diffusion mechanism.
Training on the FaBiAN phantom with controlled image degradations for robust generalization.

Main Results:

The framework significantly sharpens gyri and reduces partial-volume effects in both synthesized and clinical fetal MRI data.
Improved tissue segmentation accuracy was observed using Fetal-SynthSeg after NeSVoR reconstruction.
The proposed method consistently outperformed state-of-the-art restoration baselines.

Conclusions:

The developed framework successfully synthesizes high-quality fetal brain MRI from lower-field 1.5T scans.
This approach enhances the reliability of morphometric estimates for fetal brain analysis.
It offers a pathway to achieve 3T-level diagnostic quality in routine 1.5T clinical settings.