It is suggested that high-dimensional representation provides a general and model-agnostic mechanism for improving diffusion-based MRI reconstruction in noisy settings, offering a new perspective on robust k-space generative modeling for practical inverse problems.
Abstract
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction under realistic acquisition conditions can be fundamentally viewed as estimating the underlying k-space distribution from incomplete and noise-corrupted measurements. While diffusion models have recently shown strong potential as generative prior for inverse problems,existingapproachesstruggletohandlenoisyreconstruction settings, especially when operating directly in k-space domain. In this work, we propose a unified high-dimensional k-space reconstruction framework tailored for noisy inverse problems, whichenhancesdiffusion-based solversthroughrepresentation lifting.Ratherthanmodifyingthe underlying optimization procedures, the proposed framework augments the data representation space, enabling existing diffusion-based solvers to operate on enriched k-space embeddings with improved expressiveness. Extensive experiments on both in-house and public datasets across varying noise levels and undersampled factors demonstrate that the proposed frame work consistently improves reconstruction quality for multiple diffusion-based inverse solvers. Notably, the largest gains are observed in high-noise regimes, which is consistent with our theoretical analysis of error propagation under high-dimensional representation. These results suggest that high-dimensional representation provides a general and model-agnostic mechanism for improving diffusion-based MRI reconstruction in noisy settings, offering a new perspective on robust k-space generative modeling for practical inverse problems. The code will be available at https://github.com/yqx7150/HEP-MRIRec.
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