Summary of Enhancing Spatiotemporal Disease Progression Models Via Latent Diffusion and Prior Knowledge, by Lemuel Puglisi et al.
Enhancing Spatiotemporal Disease Progression Models via Latent Diffusion and Prior Knowledge
by Lemuel Puglisi, Daniel C. Alexander, Daniele Ravì
First submitted to arxiv on: 6 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper introduces Brain Latent Progression (BrLP), a novel spatiotemporal disease progression model based on latent diffusion. BrLP predicts disease evolution at the individual level on 3D brain MRIs, addressing challenges in learning disease progressions faced by existing deep generative models. The model incorporates prior knowledge from disease models to enhance accuracy and proposes Latent Average Stabilization (LAS) to improve spatiotemporal consistency of predicted progression. BrLP is trained and evaluated on a large dataset of 11,730 T1-weighted brain MRIs from 2,805 subjects across three publicly available Alzheimer’s Disease studies. The results demonstrate significant improvements over existing methods, with an increase in volumetric accuracy (22%) and image similarity (43%) to ground-truth scans. BrLP generates conditioned 3D scans at the subject level, enhancing disease progression modeling and opening avenues for precision medicine. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper creates a new way to predict how diseases change over time using brain MRI images. The method, called Brain Latent Progression (BrLP), is better than other techniques because it uses knowledge about different diseases to make more accurate predictions. BrLP also helps by making sure the predicted changes are consistent with what we know about how brains work. The researchers tested BrLP on a large collection of brain MRI images and found that it did much better than previous methods. This could lead to new ways for doctors to help people with diseases like Alzheimer’s. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion » Precision » Spatiotemporal
