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Autori principali: Yasinzai, Muhammad Nabi, Mito, Remika, Pedersen, Mangor
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00689
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author Yasinzai, Muhammad Nabi
Mito, Remika
Pedersen, Mangor
author_facet Yasinzai, Muhammad Nabi
Mito, Remika
Pedersen, Mangor
contents Multimodal MRI provides complementary information for neuroimaging analysis, where different imaging modalities capture distinct anatomical, tissue, and pathological features that support the development and evaluation of downstream AI applications. Although large-scale structural MRI resources are increasingly available, their modality coverage is often uneven across public and pooled neuroimaging datasets. This uneven modality coverage is further complicated by heterogeneity across sites, scanners, and acquisition protocols, as well as demographic and clinical variables that are often sparse, inconsistently recorded, or unavailable across studies. Synthetic MRI generation can help address this imbalance by synthesizing target-modality volumes for dataset augmentation and controlled synthetic cohort creation. However, many existing MRI synthesis approaches are trained on narrow modality sets or relatively homogeneous cohorts, limiting their applicability to large pooled neuroimaging resources where modality availability, acquisition protocols, and metadata coverage vary substantially across datasets. Diffusion models have become an attractive approach for MRI synthesis because of their strong sample fidelity and diversity, but sampling directly in 3D voxel space is computationally expensive and slow at inference. Latent diffusion improves practicality by synthesizing MRI in a learned, 3D latent space, although generation quality depends on the autoencoder's reconstruction fidelity and the resulting latent distribution. Our approach combines a Wavelet-Fusion variational autoencoder (WF-VAE) latent compressor with a conditional 3D U-Net diffusion model trained in the learned latent space using explicit modality and metadata conditioning. Our proposed Wavelet-Fusion Diffusion Model (WFDM) achieved the strongest distributional alignment among the evaluated synthetic MRI generators.
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spellingShingle Wavelet-Fusion Diffusion Model for Multimodal Brain MRI Synthesis with Modality and Metadata Conditioning
Yasinzai, Muhammad Nabi
Mito, Remika
Pedersen, Mangor
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimodal MRI provides complementary information for neuroimaging analysis, where different imaging modalities capture distinct anatomical, tissue, and pathological features that support the development and evaluation of downstream AI applications. Although large-scale structural MRI resources are increasingly available, their modality coverage is often uneven across public and pooled neuroimaging datasets. This uneven modality coverage is further complicated by heterogeneity across sites, scanners, and acquisition protocols, as well as demographic and clinical variables that are often sparse, inconsistently recorded, or unavailable across studies. Synthetic MRI generation can help address this imbalance by synthesizing target-modality volumes for dataset augmentation and controlled synthetic cohort creation. However, many existing MRI synthesis approaches are trained on narrow modality sets or relatively homogeneous cohorts, limiting their applicability to large pooled neuroimaging resources where modality availability, acquisition protocols, and metadata coverage vary substantially across datasets. Diffusion models have become an attractive approach for MRI synthesis because of their strong sample fidelity and diversity, but sampling directly in 3D voxel space is computationally expensive and slow at inference. Latent diffusion improves practicality by synthesizing MRI in a learned, 3D latent space, although generation quality depends on the autoencoder's reconstruction fidelity and the resulting latent distribution. Our approach combines a Wavelet-Fusion variational autoencoder (WF-VAE) latent compressor with a conditional 3D U-Net diffusion model trained in the learned latent space using explicit modality and metadata conditioning. Our proposed Wavelet-Fusion Diffusion Model (WFDM) achieved the strongest distributional alignment among the evaluated synthetic MRI generators.
title Wavelet-Fusion Diffusion Model for Multimodal Brain MRI Synthesis with Modality and Metadata Conditioning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00689