arXiv:2603. 05693v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate longitudinal analysis of brain MRI is often hindered by evolving lesions, which bias automated neuroimaging pipelines.
By Zahra Karimaghaloo, Dumitru Fetco, Haz-Edine Assemlal, Hassan Rivaz, Douglas L. Arnold
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: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
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
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:2606. 19651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Three-dimensional (3D) brain MRI is central to clinical neurology and neuro-oncology, where generative models could augment under-represented cohorts, simulate disease trajectories, and support privacy-preserving data sharing.
By Max Van Puyvelde, Ibrahim Gulluk, Wim Van Criekinge, Olivier Gevaert
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:2606. 26764v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Developing robust artificial intelligence models for 4D (3D + time) medical imaging is constrained by limited annotated data, inter-device domain shifts, and privacy restrictions.
By Yiheng Cao, Gustavo Andrade-Miranda, Jiatian Zhang, Lingxiao Zhao, Xin Gao
arXiv:2512. 09185v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding disease progression is a central clinical challenge with direct implications for early diagnosis and personalized treatment.
By Hao Chen, Rui Yin, Yifan Chen, Qi Chen, Chao Li
Developing robust artificial intelligence models for 4D (3D + time) medical imaging is constrained by limited annotated data, inter-device domain shifts, and privacy restrictions. To address this, we propose a 4D controllable generative framework for anatomically consistent data augmentation.
arXiv:2608. 08173v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Longitudinal MRI enables sensitive measurement of structural brain change for studying aging and neurodegenerative disease.
By Jingru Fu, Kathleen E. Larson, Douglas N. Greve, Bruce Fischl, Malte Hoffmann
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