diff --git a/monai/apps/generation/maisi/networks/autoencoderkl_maisi.py b/monai/apps/generation/maisi/networks/autoencoderkl_maisi.py
index 86b4e68864..53985cc174 100644
--- a/monai/apps/generation/maisi/networks/autoencoderkl_maisi.py
+++ b/monai/apps/generation/maisi/networks/autoencoderkl_maisi.py
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
         if self.print_info:
             logger.info(f"Number of splits: {self.num_splits}")
 
-        if self.dim_split <= 1 and self.num_splits <= 1:
+        if self.num_splits <= 1:
             x = self.conv(x)
             return x