English
Related papers

Related papers: Anatomically Guided Latent Diffusion for Brain MRI…

200 papers

Weakly-supervised diffusion models (DMs) in anomaly segmentation, leveraging image-level labels, have attracted significant attention for their superior performance compared to unsupervised methods. It eliminates the need for pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Yiming Che , Fazle Rafsani , Jay Shah , Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee , Teresa Wu

Normative modeling has emerged as a pivotal approach for characterizing heterogeneity and individual variance in neurodegenerative diseases, notably Alzheimer's disease(AD). One of the challenges of cortical normative modeling is the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Jianwei Zhang , Yonggang Shi

This study presents Latent Diffusion Autoencoder (LDAE), a novel encoder-decoder diffusion-based framework for efficient and meaningful unsupervised learning in medical imaging, focusing on Alzheimer disease (AD) using brain MR from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Gabriele Lozupone , Alessandro Bria , Francesco Fontanella , Frederick J. A. Meijer , Claudio De Stefano , Henkjan Huisman

The ability to predict the future trajectory of a patient is a key step toward the development of therapeutics for complex diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, most machine learning approaches developed for prediction of…

Structural and appearance changes in brain imaging over time are crucial indicators of neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration. The rapid advancement of large-scale generative models provides a promising backbone for modeling these complex…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Gexin Huang , Zhangsihao Yang , Yalin Wang , Guido Gerig , Mengwei Ren , Xiaoxiao Li

Early diagnosis of lung cancer is challenging due to biological uncertainty and the limited understanding of the biological mechanisms driving nodule progression. To address this, we propose Nodule-Aligned Multimodal (Latent) Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 James Song , Yifan Wang , Chuan Zhou , Liyue Shen

High-resolution (HR) MRI scans obtained from research-grade medical centers provide precise information about imaged tissues. However, routine clinical MRI scans are typically in low-resolution (LR) and vary greatly in contrast and spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-25 Jueqi Wang , Jacob Levman , Walter Hugo Lopez Pinaya , Petru-Daniel Tudosiu , M. Jorge Cardoso , Razvan Marinescu

Designing generative models for 3D structural brain MRI that synthesize morphologically-plausible and attribute-specific (e.g., age, sex, disease state) samples is an active area of research. Existing approaches based on frameworks like…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-04 Alan Q. Wang , Fangrui Huang , Bailey Trang , Wei Peng , Mohammad Abbasi , Kilian Pohl , Mert Sabuncu , Ehsan Adeli

Simulating aging in 3D brain MRI scans can reveal disease progression patterns in neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. Current deep learning-based generative models typically approach this problem by predicting future scans…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-28 Jaivardhan Kapoor , Jakob H. Macke , Christian F. Baumgartner

Recent 3D human generative models have achieved remarkable progress by learning 3D-aware GANs from 2D images. However, existing 3D human generative methods model humans in a compact 1D latent space, ignoring the articulated structure and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Tao Hu , Fangzhou Hong , Ziwei Liu

Implicit visual knowledge in a large latent diffusion model (LLDM) pre-trained on natural images is rich and hypothetically universal to natural and medical images. To test this hypothesis from a practical perspective, we propose a novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Ziqi Gao , S. Kevin Zhou

A common neurodegenerative disease, Alzheimer's disease requires a precise diagnosis and efficient treatment, particularly in light of escalating healthcare expenses and the expanding use of artificial intelligence in medical diagnostics.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Soyabul Islam Lincoln , Mirza Mohd Shahriar Maswood

The uncertainty of clinical examinations frequently leads to irregular observation intervals in longitudinal imaging data, posing challenges for modeling disease progression.Most existing imaging-based disease prediction models operate in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xin Hong , Ying Shi , Yinhao Li , Yen-Wei Chen

Multi-site structural MRI is increasingly used in neuroimaging studies to diversify subject cohorts. However, combining MR images acquired from various sites/centers may introduce site-related non-biological variations. Retrospective image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Mengqi Wu , Minhui Yu , Shuaiming Jing , Pew-Thian Yap , Zhengwu Zhang , Mingxia Liu

Most multi-agent systems rely exclusively on autoregressive language models (ARMs) that are based on sequential generation. Although effective for fluent text, ARMs limit global reasoning and plan revision. On the other hand, Discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Lina Berrayana , Ahmed Heakl , Abdullah Sohail , Thomas Hofmann , Salman Khan , Wei Chen

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is an irreversible neurodegenerative disorder affecting millions of individuals today. The prognosis of the disease solely depends on treating symptoms as they arise and proper caregiving, as there are no current…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Prayas Sanyal , Srinjay Mukherjee , Arkapravo Das , Anindya Sen

Medical vision-language models (Med-VLMs) have shown impressive results in tasks such as report generation and visual question answering, but they still face several limitations. Most notably, they underutilize patient metadata and lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Fangqi Cheng , Surajit Ray , Xiaochen Yang

This study introduces a deep learning framework for the inferential exploration of latent representations in 3D brain MRI, leveraging a simple convolutional autoencoder with a hierarchical encoder and a compact latent space. Trained on…

Applications · Statistics 2026-05-25 J. M. Gorriz , F. Segovia , C. Jimenez , J. E. Arco , F. J. Martinez , J Ramirez , S. Abulikemu , J. Suckling

Generating images from brain waves is gaining increasing attention due to its potential to advance brain-computer interface (BCI) systems by understanding how brain signals encode visual cues. Most of the literature has focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Eleonora Lopez , Luigi Sigillo , Federica Colonnese , Massimo Panella , Danilo Comminiello

Deep learning and generative models are advancing rapidly, with synthetic data increasingly being integrated into training pipelines for downstream analysis tasks. However, in medical imaging, their adoption remains constrained by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Kyeonghun Kim , Jaehyeok Bae , Youngung Han , Joo Young Bae , Seoyoung Ju , Junsu Lim , Gyeongmin Kim , Nam-Joon Kim , Woo Kyoung Jeong , Ken Ying-Kai Liao , Won Jae Lee , Pa Hong , Hyuk-Jae Lee