IHF-Harmony: Multi-Modality Magnetic Resonance Images Harmonization using Invertible Hierarchy Flow Model

Anqi Qiu; Haowen Pang; Pengli Zhu; Yitao Zhu

arxiv: 2602.21536 · v2 · pith:E26ZWU7Rnew · submitted 2026-02-25 · 💻 cs.CV

IHF-Harmony: Multi-Modality Magnetic Resonance Images Harmonization using Invertible Hierarchy Flow Model

Pengli Zhu , Yitao Zhu , Haowen Pang , Anqi Qiu This is my paper

Pith reviewed 2026-05-21 12:31 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification 💻 cs.CV

keywords MRI harmonizationinvertible flowmulti-modalityunpaired image translationanatomical fidelityartefact removaldeep learningreversible networks

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The pith

Reversible feature transformations enable multi-modality MRI harmonization without anatomical distortion using unpaired data.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper presents IHF-Harmony as a unified framework that breaks image translation into reversible steps for harmonizing MRI scans across different modalities. This design creates a bijective mapping so any harmonized output can be inverted back to the exact original anatomy, avoiding the distortions that plague standard translation methods. The approach relies on hierarchical subtractive coupling inside an invertible flow to strip away site-specific artefacts step by step, while an anatomy-fixed normalization layer moves target modality characteristics without altering source structure. Consistency losses on both anatomy and artefacts further lock in fidelity. Tests on multiple MRI modalities show better preservation of anatomy and stronger results on follow-on tasks than prior unpaired harmonization techniques, supporting larger multi-site studies.

Core claim

IHF-Harmony decomposes the harmonization process into reversible feature transformations via an invertible hierarchy flow that performs hierarchical subtractive coupling to remove artefact features, combined with artefact-aware normalization that applies anatomy-fixed modulation to transfer target characteristics, all trained with anatomy and artefact consistency losses on unpaired data to guarantee bijective mapping and lossless reconstruction.

What carries the argument

Invertible hierarchy flow (IHF) performing hierarchical subtractive coupling to isolate and remove artefact-related features, paired with artefact-aware normalization (AAN) that uses anatomy-fixed feature modulation to transfer target modality traits.

If this is right

Harmonization becomes feasible without collecting traveling-subject datasets, scaling to large multi-site collections.
Anatomical fidelity is retained at the level of exact invertibility, supporting reliable quantitative downstream analyses.
Performance improves on tasks such as segmentation or classification when inputs are harmonized this way.
The same unpaired training pipeline applies across any combination of MRI modalities without modality-specific redesign.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The reversible property could allow iterative harmonization chains across more than two modalities while still permitting perfect reversal at any step.
If the hierarchy depth is treated as a tunable hyperparameter, it might reveal how many artefact scales exist in typical multi-site MRI collections.
Extending the anatomy-fixed modulation to handle continuous metadata such as field strength or scanner age could further reduce residual site effects.
The method's bijective nature makes it a natural prior for registration or longitudinal studies where anatomy must remain fixed.

Load-bearing premise

Hierarchical subtractive coupling can separate artefact features from anatomy without leakage, and anatomy-fixed modulation can apply target characteristics while leaving source anatomy untouched.

What would settle it

Apply the trained model to paired source and target modality images of the same subjects; if Dice scores on segmented structures drop or voxel-wise reconstruction error after round-trip translation exceeds baseline noise levels, the lossless bijective claim is refuted.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2602.21536 by Anqi Qiu, Haowen Pang, Pengli Zhu, Yitao Zhu.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: illustrates the IHF-Harmony framework. To explicitly disentangle anatomical structure from site-specific effects, the architecture comprises squeeze operations, invertible hierarchy flows (IHF), and artefact-aware normalization (AAN). A fixed VGG encoder Evgg is employed for feature extraction and loss computation. Leveraging its invertible design to prevent information loss, IHF-Harmony defines a forwa… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Multi-modality MRI harmonization across vendors. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Numerical evaluation of harmonization outcomes in structural MRI. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Validation of diffusion MRI harmonization via parameter fitting con [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗

read the original abstract

Retrospective MRI harmonization is limited by poor scalability across modalities and reliance on traveling subject datasets. To address these challenges, we introduce IHF-Harmony, a unified invertible hierarchy flow framework for multi-modality harmonization using unpaired data. By decomposing the translation process into reversible feature transformations, IHF-Harmony guarantees bijective mapping and lossless reconstruction to prevent anatomical distortion. Specifically, an invertible hierarchy flow (IHF) performs hierarchical subtractive coupling to progressively remove artefact-related features, while an artefact-aware normalization (AAN) employs anatomy-fixed feature modulation to accurately transfer target characteristics. Combined with anatomy and artefact consistency loss objectives, IHF-Harmony achieves high-fidelity harmonization that retains source anatomy. Experiments across multiple MRI modalities demonstrate that IHF-Harmony outperforms existing methods in both anatomical fidelity and downstream task performance, facilitating robust harmonization for large-scale multi-site imaging studies. Code is available at https://github.com/Idea89560041/IHF-Harmony.

Editorial analysis

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Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

IHF-Harmony adds a hierarchical invertible flow with subtractive coupling and artefact-aware normalization for unpaired multi-modality MRI, but the abstract gives no numbers to check the lossless claim.

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The main point is that this paper puts forward a specific invertible hierarchy flow model for harmonizing MRI scans across modalities without paired data. It decomposes the process into reversible steps that are meant to strip artifacts while locking down anatomy through fixed modulation and consistency losses. That combination of hierarchical subtractive coupling plus anatomy-fixed normalization is the concrete new piece, and it is not just a rehash of prior flow work on this exact task. If the full experiments hold, the approach could make data pooling across sites more reliable in medical imaging studies. Credit is due for shipping code and for grounding the design in bijective mappings that in principle avoid the distortion problems common in non-invertible translators. The consistency objectives for both anatomy and artifacts are a reasonable way to add supervision in the unpaired case. The soft spot is that the abstract asserts better anatomical fidelity and downstream performance without showing any quantitative results, error bars, dataset sizes, or ablation tables. That leaves the central guarantee of lossless reconstruction unverified from the text alone. The stress-test worry about whether the coupling layers actually isolate artifacts without anatomical leakage is fair, because unpaired data offers no direct signal for perfect disentanglement; any leakage would break the no-distortion promise even if the flow stays formally invertible. Minor issues include the usual need for more detail on how hierarchy depth was chosen and whether the method scales to new modalities. This work is for researchers who run multi-site MRI analyses and want practical harmonization tools that preserve anatomy. A reader already familiar with normalizing flows or medical domain adaptation would get the most out of the architecture choices. It deserves a serious referee because the problem is real, the formal invertibility angle is cleanly motivated, and the code release allows direct checking. I would send it to review rather than desk reject.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces IHF-Harmony, a unified invertible hierarchy flow framework for multi-modality MRI harmonization on unpaired data. It decomposes translation into reversible feature transformations via an Invertible Hierarchy Flow (IHF) that performs hierarchical subtractive coupling to remove artefact-related features and an Artefact-Aware Normalization (AAN) that uses anatomy-fixed feature modulation to transfer target characteristics, combined with anatomy and artefact consistency losses, to guarantee bijective mapping, lossless reconstruction, and retention of source anatomy while outperforming prior methods in fidelity and downstream tasks.

Significance. If the bijective mapping and artefact-anatomy separation hold, the approach could enable scalable retrospective harmonization across modalities without traveling-subject data, supporting large-scale multi-site studies. The explicit use of invertible flows for guaranteed lossless reconstruction and the introduction of IHF and AAN modules represent a structured attempt to address anatomical distortion in unpaired settings.

major comments (2)

[Abstract] Abstract: The central claims of outperformance in anatomical fidelity and downstream task performance, as well as the guarantee of lossless reconstruction, are asserted without any quantitative metrics, error bars, dataset sizes, or ablation results. This absence is load-bearing because the soundness of the bijective mapping and no-distortion guarantee cannot be assessed from the provided description alone.
[Method (IHF and AAN description)] The hierarchical subtractive coupling in the IHF (described in the method) is claimed to progressively isolate artefact features while the AAN's anatomy-fixed modulation transfers target statistics without altering source anatomy. However, on unpaired multi-modality data with no direct supervision for disentanglement, it is unclear how the consistency losses enforce strict feature separation; any leakage would violate the lossless reconstruction claim even if the overall flow remains formally invertible.

minor comments (2)

[Abstract] The abstract mentions 'Experiments across multiple MRI modalities' but provides no specifics on modalities, sites, or evaluation protocols; these details should be added for reproducibility.
[Method] Notation for the coupling layers and modulation parameters in the IHF and AAN should be defined more explicitly with equations to clarify the hierarchy depth and how subtractive operations are parameterized.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive and insightful comments on our manuscript. We address each major comment point by point below, providing clarifications based on the full paper content and indicating planned revisions to improve clarity and substantiation of our claims.

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Referee: The abstract asserts central claims of outperformance in anatomical fidelity and downstream task performance, as well as the guarantee of lossless reconstruction, without any quantitative metrics, error bars, dataset sizes, or ablation results. This makes it difficult to assess the soundness of the bijective mapping and no-distortion guarantee from the description alone.

Authors: We agree that the abstract would be strengthened by including key quantitative indicators to support the claims upfront. The full manuscript (Section 4 and supplementary material) reports specific metrics including SSIM, PSNR, and FID scores with standard deviations across multiple datasets (e.g., over 200 subjects from public multi-site MRI collections), along with ablation studies validating the IHF and AAN components and downstream task improvements (e.g., segmentation accuracy gains). We will revise the abstract to concisely incorporate representative quantitative results, dataset scale, and mention of the evaluations to make the performance claims and reconstruction guarantees more immediately assessable. revision: yes
Referee: It is unclear how the consistency losses enforce strict feature separation in the IHF's hierarchical subtractive coupling and AAN's anatomy-fixed modulation on unpaired multi-modality data with no direct supervision for disentanglement; any leakage would violate the lossless reconstruction claim even if the flow remains formally invertible.

Authors: We appreciate this important point on the mechanism of disentanglement. The anatomy consistency loss enforces preservation by applying the inverse flow to reconstruct the original source image from the harmonized output and minimizing perceptual and structural differences, while the artefact consistency loss aligns the distribution of hierarchically extracted artefact features with target-domain statistics via adversarial and moment-matching terms. The hierarchical subtractive coupling progressively isolates features layer by layer, and the overall invertibility combined with these losses ensures that leakage would increase reconstruction error, which is minimized during training. The full paper includes ablation studies (removing individual losses) and feature visualizations demonstrating effective separation without paired data. To address the concern directly, we will expand the method section with additional explanation of the loss formulations and their role in promoting separation. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in derivation chain

full rationale

The paper proposes IHF-Harmony as a new invertible hierarchy flow architecture with hierarchical subtractive coupling and artefact-aware normalization, supported by consistency losses. The bijective mapping and lossless reconstruction follow directly from the choice of reversible transformations, which is an explicit architectural property rather than a derived prediction that reduces to fitted inputs. No equations or claims in the provided text show a self-definitional loop, fitted parameter renamed as prediction, or load-bearing self-citation chain. The central claims about artefact isolation and anatomy preservation are presented as consequences of the proposed modules and losses, which remain independent of the target metrics. The derivation is self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 2 invented entities

Review based on abstract only; the central claim rests on unverified assumptions about feature separability in flow models and the effectiveness of the proposed consistency losses.

free parameters (1)

hierarchy depth and coupling parameters
Not specified in abstract but typical for flow-based models; likely tuned during training.

axioms (1)

domain assumption Invertible flows can decompose image features into independent artefact and anatomy components via subtractive coupling.
Invoked to justify progressive artefact removal without anatomical distortion.

invented entities (2)

Invertible Hierarchy Flow (IHF) no independent evidence
purpose: Performs hierarchical subtractive coupling to remove artefact features.
New module introduced by the paper.
Artefact-Aware Normalization (AAN) no independent evidence
purpose: Employs anatomy-fixed feature modulation to transfer target characteristics.
New component introduced by the paper.

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By decomposing the translation process into reversible feature transformations, IHF-Harmony guarantees bijective mapping and lossless reconstruction... invertible hierarchy flow (IHF) performs hierarchical subtractive coupling
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