SSCM: A Spatial-Semantic Consistent Model for Multi-Contrast MRI Super-Resolution
Multi-contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging super-resolution (MC-MRI SR) aims to enhance low-resolution (LR) contrasts leveraging high-resolution (HR) references, shortening acquisition time and improving imaging efficiency while preserving anatomical details. The main challenge lies in maintaining spatial-semantic consistency, ensuring anatomical structures remain well-aligned and coherent despite structural discrepancies and motion between the target and reference images. Conventional methods insufficiently model spatial–semantic consistency and underuse frequency-domain information, which leads to poor fine-grained alignment and inadequate recovery of high-frequency details. In this paper, we propose the Spatial-Semantic Consistent Model (SSCM), which integrates a Dynamic Spatial Warping Module for inter-contrast spatial alignment, a Semantic-Aware Token Aggregation Block for long-range semantic consistency, and a Spatial-Frequency Fusion Block for fine structure restoration. Experiments on public and private datasets show that SSCM achieves state-of-the-art performance with fewer parameters while ensuring spatially and semantically consistent reconstructions.
Authors
- L. Gan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3516-8335)
- Xiaoyan Sun
- Jing Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2019-225X)
- Siying Wu
- Xiaoman Wu
- Yunwei Ou
Institutions
- University of Science and Technology of China (CN)
- Capital Medical University (CN)
- Beijing Tian Tan Hospital (CN)
- National Science Centre (PL)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2026-04-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/icassp55912.2026.11464902
- Primary Topic
- Medical Imaging and Analysis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China