Joint Supervised and Self-Supervised Training with Acquisition-Robust Techniques for Accelerated 4D Flow MRI Reconstruction

arXiv:2609.38644 · eess.IV, cs.CV · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

eess.IV, cs.CV

Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-29

Code: https://github.com/cc0231/flowvn_jssl

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The gist: 4D flow MRI measures time-resolved, three-directional blood velocity but requires long acquisition times, and its diagnostic signal is carried by the phase difference between velocity encodings, not

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4D flow MRI measures time-resolved, three-directional blood velocity but requires long acquisition times, and its diagnostic signal is carried by the phase difference between velocity encodings, not by image magnitude. Recent work has developed a per-encoding variational network to address image reconstruction in this field. In this work, we incorporate a joint supervised and self-supervised training regime and utilize both magnitude and velocity data during supervision. At the same time, we add multiple acquisition-robust and conditioning strategies based on the acceleration factors. On the CMRx4DFlow 2026 aortic dataset (1.5 and 3T), our model lowers RelErr by 38 -- 50% and AngErr by 7.0 -- 8.7 against a training-matched baseline across R = 10 -- 50, improving on every held-out subject at every acceleration. Our model also shows strong generalization ability to transfer on out-of-distribution data by employing the joint training scheme, with an increase of 7.2% in SSIM and decrease of 38% and 31% in AngErr and RelErr respectively.

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