A novel complex-valued diffusion model, PhaseGen, has been introduced for generating synthetic MRI raw data conditioned on magnitude images.
PhaseGen allows pretraining for models that require k-Space information, enabling downstream tasks such as tumor segmentation and classification.
The evaluation of PhaseGen on skull-stripping and MRI reconstruction tasks showed significant improvements in segmentation accuracy and reconstruction when combined with limited real-world data.
This approach bridges the gap between magnitude-based datasets and the complex-valued nature of MRI raw data, enabling more accurate and efficient diagnostic tasks.