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Auteurs principaux: Yang, Guangqian, Ding, Tong, Hou, Wenlong, Xun, Yue, Du, Ye, Niu, Qian, Wang, Shujun
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Publié: 2026
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13059
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author Yang, Guangqian
Ding, Tong
Hou, Wenlong
Xun, Yue
Du, Ye
Niu, Qian
Wang, Shujun
author_facet Yang, Guangqian
Ding, Tong
Hou, Wenlong
Xun, Yue
Du, Ye
Niu, Qian
Wang, Shujun
contents Clinical diagnostic workups typically follow a modality escalation pathway: after initial clinical evaluation, clinicians begin with routine structural imaging (e.g., MRI), selectively add sequences such as FLAIR or T2 to refine the differential, and reserve molecular imaging (e.g., amyloid-PET) for cases that remain uncertain after standard evaluation. Consequently, patients are observed with heterogeneous and often incomplete modality subsets. However, most current AI models assume fixed data modalities as the model inputs. In this paper, we present BrainAnytime, a unified pretraining framework pretrained on 34,899 3D brain scans from five datasets that support brain image analysis under arbitrary modality availability spanning multi-sequence MRI and amyloid-PET. A single model accepts whatever imaging is available, from a lone T1 scan to a full multimodal workup. Pretraining learns structural-molecular correspondences between MRI and PET via cross-modal distillation (RCMD) and prioritizes disease-vulnerable anatomy via atlas-guided curriculum masking (PACM), all within a shared 3D masked autoencoder (Multi-MAE3D). Across four downstream tasks and five clinically motivated modality settings, BrainAnytime largely outperforms modality-specific models, missing-modality baselines, and large-scale brain MRI pretrained foundation models on most modality settings. Notably, it surpasses the strongest missing-modality baselines with relative improvements of 6.2% and 7.0% in average accuracy on CN vs. AD and CN vs. MCI classification, respectively. Code is available at https://github.com/SDH-Lab/BrainAnytime.
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spellingShingle BrainAnytime: Anatomy-Aware Cross-Modal Pretraining for Brain Image Analysis with Arbitrary Modality Availability
Yang, Guangqian
Ding, Tong
Hou, Wenlong
Xun, Yue
Du, Ye
Niu, Qian
Wang, Shujun
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Clinical diagnostic workups typically follow a modality escalation pathway: after initial clinical evaluation, clinicians begin with routine structural imaging (e.g., MRI), selectively add sequences such as FLAIR or T2 to refine the differential, and reserve molecular imaging (e.g., amyloid-PET) for cases that remain uncertain after standard evaluation. Consequently, patients are observed with heterogeneous and often incomplete modality subsets. However, most current AI models assume fixed data modalities as the model inputs. In this paper, we present BrainAnytime, a unified pretraining framework pretrained on 34,899 3D brain scans from five datasets that support brain image analysis under arbitrary modality availability spanning multi-sequence MRI and amyloid-PET. A single model accepts whatever imaging is available, from a lone T1 scan to a full multimodal workup. Pretraining learns structural-molecular correspondences between MRI and PET via cross-modal distillation (RCMD) and prioritizes disease-vulnerable anatomy via atlas-guided curriculum masking (PACM), all within a shared 3D masked autoencoder (Multi-MAE3D). Across four downstream tasks and five clinically motivated modality settings, BrainAnytime largely outperforms modality-specific models, missing-modality baselines, and large-scale brain MRI pretrained foundation models on most modality settings. Notably, it surpasses the strongest missing-modality baselines with relative improvements of 6.2% and 7.0% in average accuracy on CN vs. AD and CN vs. MCI classification, respectively. Code is available at https://github.com/SDH-Lab/BrainAnytime.
title BrainAnytime: Anatomy-Aware Cross-Modal Pretraining for Brain Image Analysis with Arbitrary Modality Availability
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13059