MOSAIC-Flow: Orthogonal-Axis and Status-Conditioned Fusion for Missing-Sequence Completion in Brain Tumor MRI

arXiv:2610.39534v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Missing-sequence completion is important for comprehensive brain tumor characterization, but cross-modal fusion can obscure sequence-specific contrast and lose fine-grained three-dimensional tumor detail. To address this challenge, we introduce Modality-aware Orthogonal-axis Status-conditioned Attentive Integration for Completion (MOSAIC-Flow), a unified framework for missing-sequence completion that learns a target-conditioned velocity field while keeping the seven acquired volumes fixed throughout the transport. Specifically, modality-aware stems independently encode each sequence, and orthogonal-axis refinement captures axial, coronal, and sagittal dependencies while retaining the three-dimensional representation. Status-conditioned prototype fusion uses compact modality and availability tokens to route and modulate pooled queries from the fused visual representation, enabling target-adaptive conditioning without dense voxel-to-voxel attention. A conditional flow matching objective transports target-channel noise toward the single missing sequence, while four Heun trajectories are averaged to produce the completion. Evaluation across structural, diffusion, and contrast-enhanced MRI in UCSF-PDGM demonstrates consistent whole-brain and tumor-region fidelity across all eight single-target completion tasks, with the strongest performance on structural sequences. Code is available at https://github.com/CUHK-AIM-Group/MOSAIC-FLOW.