{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/edge-guided-and-cross-scale-feature-fusion","title":"Edge-guided and Cross-scale Feature Fusion Network for Efficient Multi-contrast MRI Super-Resolution","arxiv_id":"2407.05307","date":"2024-07-07","proceeding":null,"authors":["Zhiyuan Yang","Bo Zhang","Zhiqiang Zeng","Si Yong Yeo"],"abstract":"In recent years, MRI super-resolution techniques have achieved great success, especially multi-contrast methods that extract texture information from reference images to guide the super-resolution reconstruction. However, current methods primarily focus on texture similarities at the same scale, neglecting cross-scale similarities that provide comprehensive information. Moreover, the misalignment between features of different scales impedes effective aggregation of information flow. To address the limitations, we propose a novel edge-guided and cross-scale feature fusion network, namely ECFNet. Specifically, we develop a pipeline consisting of the deformable convolution and the cross-attention transformer to align features of different scales. The cross-scale fusion strategy fully integrates the texture information from different scales, significantly enhancing the super-resolution. In addition, a novel structure information collaboration module is developed to guide the super-resolution reconstruction with implicit structure priors. The structure information enables the network to focus on high-frequency components of the image, resulting in sharper details. Extensive experiments on the IXI and BraTS2020 datasets demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance compared to other multi-contrast MRI super-resolution methods, and our method is robust in terms of different super-resolution scales. We would like to release our code and pre-trained model after the paper is accepted.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.05307v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.05307v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"edge-guided-and-cross-scale-feature-fusion","repo_url":"https://github.com/zhiyuan-yang/Edge-Guided-Cross-Scale-MRI-Super-resolution","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"super-resolution","task_name":"Super-Resolution"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"align","method_name":"ALIGN"},{"method_slug":"convolution","method_name":"Convolution"},{"method_slug":"deformable-convolution","method_name":"Deformable Convolution"},{"method_slug":"focus","method_name":"Focus"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}