Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
331-02-006 / 331-02-006 ISMRM Abstract

AlignPET: Structure-Aligned MRI-to-PET Synthesis via Variational Autoregression Model for Ischemic Brain Lesions

Primary: Analysis Methods - Image Synthesis and Translation
Secondary: Analysis Methods - Generative Models
331-02-006 · AI Frontiers in Image Analysis · Monday, 11 May, 1:50 PM–3:06 PM · Roof Terrace
331-02-006 · AI Frontiers in Image Analysis · Monday, 11 May, 1:50 PM–3:06 PM · Roof Terrace
Keywords: Ischemic Stroke Functional Imaging Cross-Modal Image Generation Variational Autoregressive Model Texture Attention
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Yifei Chen 1, Guanyu Zhou1, Yuanhan Wang1, Mingxuan Liu1, Xuguang Bai1, Jialan Zheng1, Bixiao Cui2,3, Jie Lu2,3, Qiyuan Tian1
1School of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
3Beijing Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Brain Informatics, Beijing, China
Presenting Author: Yifei Chen

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