Brain MRI

MRI: Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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Brain MRI research develops methods to measure brain anatomy and detect or characterize conditions such as tumors, multiple sclerosis, stroke, and neurodegeneration. Common approaches include U-Net-style segmentation, transformer and graph models, multimodal learning, and self-supervised foundation models, evaluated on datasets such as BraTS, ADNI, and IBSR. Other work reconstructs or enhances images, estimates biomarkers such as brain age, and uses language models to analyze scans and reports. A central challenge is ensuring that results generalize across scanners, sites, and patient groups while preserving clinically important details and demonstrating value beyond image-similarity scores or benchmark accuracy.

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  1. MOSAIC-Flow: Orthogonal-Axis and Status-Conditioned Fusion for Missing-Sequence Completion in Brain Tumor MRI

    Oct 29, 2026Pengli Zhu, Zhihao Peng, Yixuan YuanBrain MRI3D Medical Imaging

    Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

  2. Retrospective macromolecular pool fraction mapping from conventional clinical MRI: a physics-guided self-supervised deep learning framework

    Oct 27, 2026Jelmer van Lune, Miha Fuderer, Oscar van der Heide +5Magnetic Resonance ImagingBrain MRI

    Computational Imaging Group for MRI Therapy & Diagnostics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands · Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  3. ViBMR: A Large-Scale Multi-Sequence Brain MRI Dataset and Comprehensive Evaluation for Vietnamese Radiology Report Generation

    Oct 21, 2026Dai Lam Le, Minh Khoi Nguyen, Son Dinh Nguyen +6Radiology Report GenerationMultimodal Dataset

    AI4LIFE, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam · SAMOVAR, Télécom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France · Concordia International School Hanoi, Vietnam +1

  4. Inferring continuous cognitive traits from limited neuroimaging data using pairwise convolutional neural networks

    Oct 20, 2026Marjan Rashidi, Robert Bain, Craig Stark +3NeuroimagingConvolutional Neural Networks

    Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine · Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, University of California, Irvine · Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara

  5. MoSAIK: Motion Search with Artificial Intelligence in K-space

    Oct 19, 2026Oscar Dabrowski, Abijith Jagannath, Frédéric Grouiller +1Magnetic Resonance ImagingBrain MRI

    CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging, Geneva, Switzerland · Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland · Biomedical Imaging Group, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland +1

  6. Multimodal-Conditioned Latent Diffusion Models for Spatiotemporal Brain MRI Forecasting

    Oct 18, 2026Antonio Scardace, Silvia Ingala, Sebastiano Battiato +1Brain MRIAlzheimer's Disease Progression Prediction

    University of Catania · Copenhagen University Hospital – Rigshospitalet · Copenhagen University Hospital – Herlev and Gentofte +2

  7. GliomaINK: A Tumor and Anatomy Conditioned Flow Matching Framework for 3D MRI Sequence Synthesis in Glioma Patients

    Oct 16, 2026Moinak Bhattacharya, Annie Singh, Mohammad Chaudhry +2Medical Image SynthesisBrain MRI

    Department of Radiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, NY, US · Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India · Department of Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook University, NY, US

  8. LGGS: Longitudinal MRI Reconstruction via Guided Group Sparsity

    Oct 15, 2026Nikola Janjušević, Hersh Chandarana, Yao Wang +1Accelerated MRI ReconstructionLongitudinal Medical Image Analysis

    Radiology Department, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016 USA · Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA

  9. A3^3PreCore: Robust Rigid Registration for Native FLAIR-Space Brain-Mask Transfer

    Oct 14, 2026Elmira Mirzabeigi, Zahra Khalilzad, Taylor Snowden-Richardson +4Medical Image Quality AssessmentMedical Image Registration

    Faubert Laboratory, School of Optometry, Université de Montréal, 3744 Jean-Brillant, Montréal, Québec H3T 1P1, Canada · Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, 3800 Finnerty Road, Victoria, British Columbia V8P 5C2, Canada · Division of Medical Sciences, University of Victoria, 3800 Finnerty Road, Victoria, British Columbia V8P 5C2, Canada

  10. Quantifying privacy risks in foundation model representations of brain MRI

    Oct 14, 2026Imen Bajar, Héber Hwang Arcolezi, Antoine Boutet +2Medical Imaging Foundation ModelsPrivacy-Preserving ML

    École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Montréal, QC, Canada · Inria, INSA Lyon, CITI, UR3720, 69621 Villeurbanne, France · CREATIS, CNRS UMR5220, INSERM U1294, Université Lyon, INSA-Lyon, Lyon, France +1

  11. DeepPV-MRF: End-to-End Partial-Volume Fraction Estimation from MR Fingerprinting Time Series

    Oct 14, 2026Tianyi Ding, Yang Gao, Zhuang Xiong +4Magnetic Resonance ImagingBrain MRI

    School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Australia · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China · Image X Institute, Sydney School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia +4

  12. Uncertainty-Aware Cortical Surface Reconstruction and Spherical Registration for Heterogeneous Brain MRI

    Oct 12, 2026Jesper Duemose Nielsen, Karthik Gopinath, Andrew Hoopes +4Brain MRI3D Reconstruction

    Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital – Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark · Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark · Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA +3

  13. Frozen Site-Probe Accuracy Is Not a Standalone Harmonization Score: An Audit of Evaluation Practice for Multi-Site MRI

    Oct 9, 2026Muhammad Muqsit Islam, Gloria García Cuenco, José M. Martínez +1Medical Image HarmonizationMagnetic Resonance Imaging

    Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain · Université de Bordeaux, France · Video Processing and Understanding Lab, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain +1

  14. Identity-Duplication Auditing in National-Scale Neuroimaging Repositories

    Oct 7, 2026Jiheng Li, Michael E. Kim, Trent M. Schwartz +19NeuroimagingBrain MRI

    HABS-HD · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA · AI2D Center for AI and Data Science for Integrated Diagnostics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA +2

  15. Zero-Shot Brain MRI Inpainting with 2.5D Unconditional Flow Priors

    Oct 6, 2026Arnela Hadzic, Franz Thaler, Simon Johannes Joham +1Image InpaintingMedical Image Synthesis

    Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

  16. BrainTRACE: Tracing Longitudinal, Multimodal, and Volumetric Evidence in Brain MRI Clinical Reasoning

    Oct 5, 2026Qizhen Lan, Mengchen Fan, Hang Zhang +5VLM Evaluation3D Medical Imaging

    University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston · University of Alabama at Birmingham · University of Pittsburgh +3

  17. NeuroCBIR: A Fast and Accurate Image Retrieval System for Whole-Brain and Region-Specific MRI

    Oct 5, 2026Felix Nieto-del-Amor, Jingru Fu, J. -Sebastian Muehlboeck +3Image RetrievalMedical Image Representation Learning

  18. MIRTO: a registration-gated, multiverse-tested evaluation protocol for unsupervised anomaly segmentation in brain MRI

    Oct 1, 2026Negin Kafee Hernashki, Soumick ChatterjeeAnomaly LocalizationUnsupervised Anomaly Detection

    Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy · Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy · Human Technopole, Milan, Italy +1

  19. Surface-volume self-supervised representation learning of brain MRI for genetic discovery

    Oct 1, 2026Tian Xia, Nuo Chen, Zihao Zhu +4Self-Supervised LearningMedical Image Representation Learning

    D. Bradley McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, US. · Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, US. · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, US. +1

  20. Scores That Hold, Benchmarks That Leak: Measuring Dataset Contamination in Public Brain-Tumor MRI Classification

    Sep 30, 2026Bhanu Prakash Vangala, Sowmya Guda, Latha Peddi +1Data LeakageBenchmark Contamination

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 USA · Government Degree College (Autonomous), Siddipet, Telangana 502103, India · Amar Biotech Private Limited, Kondapur, Hyderabad, Telangana 500084, India

  21. MRI Super-Resolution with RCDM/WaveMix and Task-Aware Segmentation

    Sep 30, 2026Kavitha Viswanathan, Harsh Choudhary, Amit SethiMedical Image AnalysisMedical Image Super-Resolution

    Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai 400 076, India

  22. Reduce, Then Encode: Multiscale Volumetric Reduction for 2D Foundation Models in Brain MRI

    Sep 28, 2026Dexuan Ding, Yuankai Qi, Bogong Wang +2Medical Imaging Foundation ModelsDimensionality Reduction

    Macquarie University · Australian National University · University of Sydney

  23. Evidence Before Accuracy: A MRI-PET Fusion Network for Alzheimer Disease Classification with Causal Regional Validation

    Sep 28, 2026Saeid Firouzi Daghigh, Saeed AyatAlzheimer's Disease ClassificationExplainable Medical Image Analysis

    Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

  24. Combining General and Domain-Specific Pretext Tasks for Brain MR Image Segmentation

    Sep 25, 2026Tasneem Nasser, Susanne Schmid, Roberto Souza +1Medical Image Representation LearningSelf-Supervised Pre-Training

    Biomedical Engineering University of Calgary Calgary AB Canada · Hotchkiss Brain Institute University of Calgary Calgary AB Canada · Electrical and Software Engineering University of Calgary Calgary AB Canada +1

  25. WebMRIQC: A Web-Based Implementation of MRIQC for Accessible MRI Image Quality Assessment in Resource-Constrained Settings

    Sep 21, 2026Philip Nkwam, Ifeoluwa Oladeji, Sekinat Zurakat-Aderibigbe +9Medical Image AnalysisMagnetic Resonance Imaging

    Department of Radiography, Faculty of Health Professions, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Nigeria. · Medical Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Crestview Radiology Ltd., Lagos, Nigeria. · Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. +3

  26. Evaluating the Generalization of Neuroimaging Foundation Models on African Brain MRI

    Sep 21, 2026Oluwatobi Iyanuoluwa Akinmuleya, Olatokun Shamsudeen Akano, Samuel Danquah Ankapong +2Medical Imaging Foundation ModelsDomain Generalization

    Department of Medicine, Shenyang Medical College, Shenyang, China · College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria · University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana +2

  27. Anatomically Faithful Artifact Suppression in SENSE Accelerated Brain MRI

    Sep 18, 2026Changjing Chai, Bin Huang, Libo Xu +5Accelerated MRI ReconstructionMagnetic Resonance Imaging

    Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, School of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200041, China · Institute of Magnetic Resonance and Molecular Imaging in Medicine, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China · Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, China +5

  28. Forecasting Brain Tracer Distribution from Pre-Contrast MRI: A Comparison of Direct Regression and Flow Matching

    Sep 17, 2026Qinghui Liu, Jon André Ottesen, Thu Nguyen +6Brain MRILongitudinal Medical Image Analysis

    Department of Physics and Computational Radiology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway · Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway · K.G. Jebsen Centre for Brain Fluid Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway +4

  29. Fast Cross-Strength Multi-Contrast Brain MRI Translation using Latent Bridge Matching

    Sep 17, 2026Siddharth Srivastava, Till BretschneiderMagnetic Resonance ImagingMedical Image Synthesis

    University of Warwick, United Kingdom

  30. Brain-PACE: A Deep Siamese MRI Framework for Modelling Longitudinal Brain Acceleration

    Sep 10, 2026Samuel Maddox, Jacob Newman, Saber Sami +4Alzheimer's DiseaseBrain Age Prediction

    School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia · Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia