Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
608-02-003 ISMRM Abstract

MMRQA: Signal-Enhanced Multimodal Large Language Models for MRI Quality Assessment

Primary: Analysis Methods - Multi-Modal Learning with LLMs/VLMs
Secondary: Acquisition & Reconstruction - Artifacts and Correction Strategies
608-02-003 · Towards Multimodal Intelligence in MRI: Vision-Language Integration · Thursday, 14 May, 1:40 PM–3:30 PM · Meeting Room 1.60
Keywords: Multimodal Large Language Models MRI Quality Assessment Signal Metrics
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Fankai Jia 1,2, Daisong Gan1,3, Zhe Zhang1,3, Zhaochi Wen3,4, Yanjie Zhu1,2,5, Dong Liang1,2,3,5, Haifeng Wang1,2,5
1University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
2Paul C. Lauterbur Research Center for Biomedical Imaging, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
3Research Center for Medical AI, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
4School of Biomedical Engineering & State Key Laboratory of Advanced Medical Materials and Devices, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
5State Key Laboratory of Biomedical Imaging Science and System, Shenzhen, China
Presenting Author: Fankai Jia

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