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Abstract - CARE: Training-Free Controllable Restoration for Medical Images via Dual-Latent Steering
Medical image restoration is essential for improving the usability of noisy, incomplete, and artifact-corrupted clinical scans, yet existing methods often rely on task-specific retraining and offer limited control over the trade-off between faithful reconstruction and prior-driven enhancement. This lack of controllability is especially problematic in clinical settings, where overly aggressive restoration may introduce hallucinated details or alter diagnostically important structures. In this work, we propose CARE, a training-free controllable restoration framework for real-world medical images that explicitly balances structure preservation and prior-guided refinement during inference. CARE uses a dual-latent restoration strategy, in which one branch enforces data fidelity and anatomical consistency while the other leverages a generative prior to recover missing or degraded information. A risk-aware adaptive controller dynamically adjusts the contribution of each branch based on restoration uncertainty and local structural reliability, enabling conservative or enhancement-focused restoration modes without additional model training. We evaluate CARE on noisy and incomplete medical imaging scenarios and show that it achieves strong restoration quality while better preserving clinically relevant structures and reducing the risk of implausible reconstructions and show that it achieves strong restoration quality while better preserving clinically relevant structures and reducing the risk of implausible reconstructions. The proposed approach offers a practical step toward safer, more controllable, and more deployment-ready medical image restoration.
CARE:基于双潜在引导的免训练可控医学图像修复方法 /
CARE: Training-Free Controllable Restoration for Medical Images via Dual-Latent Steering
1️⃣ 一句话总结
这项研究提出了一种无需额外训练的医学图像修复方法,它通过两个并行的处理分支和一个智能控制器,在修复图像噪声和缺损的同时,能动态权衡‘忠实还原原始结构’与‘利用先验知识增强细节’之间的关系,从而降低因过度修复而引入虚假信息或破坏关键诊断结构的风险。