AGGR-Mamba: Mamba-based Network with Attention-Guided Gated Residual Refinement for Undersampled MRI Reconstruction

Yue Zhuo, Wenbin Deng, Lingjun Liu, Xuhang Chen, Zhonghua Xie

Undersampled magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction aims to recover high-quality images from partially acquired k-space data, thereby reducing scan time. However, missing frequency-domain measurements often lead to residual aliasing artifacts, blurred edges, and loss of local structural details. In this paper, we propose AGGR-Mamba, a lightweight output-stage residual refinement method built upon a Mamba backbone for undersampled brain MRI reconstruction. The Mamba backbone first produces an initial reconstruction, and the proposed refinement modules then correct the remaining local errors and high-frequency artifacts in a controlled residual manner. Specifically, an Attention Refine Head is introduced to recalibrate local anatomical structures, edge textures, and residual-error regions through channel and spatial attention. In addition, a GDFN-style gated residual refinement branch is designed to selectively preserve informative residual features while suppressing redundant or unstable responses. By combining attention-based recalibration with gated residual selection, AGGR-Mamba improves local structure recovery without substantially disturbing the backbone…