arXiv Computer Vision

4DLoG: Generative Modeling of Neurodegenerative Brain Anatomy with 4D Longitudinal Diffusion Model

arXiv:2604. 22700v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modeling and predicting neurodegenerative disease progression from medical images remains a major challenge in medical AI, with significant implications for early diagnosis, disease monitoring, and treatment planning.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 15

Reverse Spatio-Temporal Disease Progression Modelling

The paper introduces a reverse spatio‑temporal disease progression model that reconstructs unobserved healthier anatomy from later diseased scans. It employs a two‑stage architecture: a frozen 3D vector‑quantised autoencoder creates a discrete latent space, and a Neural ODE learns continuous‑time dynamics, with a recurrent encoder initializing the latent state from reverse‑ordered observations. Experiments on a synthetic Morpho‑MNIST benchmark and longitudinal Alzheimer’s MRIs show the model can recover unseen prior states and outperform baseline methods in predicting healthy trajectories.

By Ulugbek Shernazarov, Moucheng Xu, Inomjon Ramatov
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 18

Structural MRI Synthesis for Alzheimer's Disease via Conditional Diffusion on Anatomical Masks

arXiv:2606. 18354v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in generative machine learning models have significantly improved medical imaging, offering promising solutions for data augmentation, privacy preservation, and improved model generalization.

By Muge Zhang, Muhammad Ali Khaliq, Jamal Alsakran, Byeong Kil Lee, Jeeho Ryoo
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

Progression as Latent Drift: Generative Forecasting of Slow-Evolving Pathologies

The paper introduces Latent Drift, a generative forecasting framework that predicts slow-evolving neurodegenerative disease progression by learning changes in a compressed semantic representation rather than full-resolution anatomy. It addresses two failure modes—identity collapse and continuous interpolation trap—by removing pixel-level identity from the prediction target and applying Finite Scalar Quantization to suppress high-frequency nuisance fluctuations. Experiments on longitudinal 3D brain MRI demonstrate that Latent Drift outperforms diffusion and autoregressive transformer baselines in both generative fidelity and clinically relevant metrics.

By Yuxiang Feng, Juncheng Wang, Chao Xu, Wenlong Hou, Huihan Wang, Yijie Qian, Yang Liu, Baigui Sun, Yong Liu, Shujun Wang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 17

SMART: A Flexible, Interpretable, and Scalable Spatio-temporal Brain Atlas from High-Resolution Imaging Data

We introduce SMART, a framework for learning a flexible, interpretable, and scalable spatio-temporal brain atlas from longitudinal high-resolution 3D medical images. Existing approaches to spatio-temporal atlas construction rely on black-box generative models that lack flexibility, limit interpretability, and struggle to scale to high-dimensional data.

arXiv AI
4d ago

Multimodal synthesis of MRI and tabular data with diffusion in a joint latent space via cross-attention

The paper introduces a multimodal latent diffusion model that jointly synthesizes volumetric MRI scans and tabular clinical data within a shared latent space using cross‑attention. By fusing the modalities through a variational autoencoder before diffusion, the model reconstructs MRI and tabular data with separate decoders, producing anatomically plausible images that align with synthesized clinical attributes. Evaluation on the German National Cohort dataset shows high‑fidelity image generation and superior tabular performance compared to CTGAN, marking the first demonstration of joint MRI‑tabular modeling in a single diffusion framework.

By Daniel Mensing, Jan Kapar, Jochen G. Hirsch, Matthias G\"unther, Horst Hahn, Marvin N. Wright
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

Lesion-DDPM: Lesion-Enhanced 3D Diffusion for MS MRI Synthesis

arXiv:2606. 15457v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 3D FLAIR MRI is widely recommended as one of the standard MRI sequences for brain imaging in multiple sclerosis (MS), but publicly available MS datasets remain relatively small and vary across scanners, acquisition protocols, and lesion patterns.

By Weidong Zhang, Yongchan Jung, Shafayat Mowla Anik, Furen Xiao, Vasudevan Janarthanan, Enkhzaya Chuluunbaatar, Byeong Kil Lee, Jeeho Ryoo