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Morphology-preserving Autoregressive 3D Generative Modelling of the Brain

Authors :
Tudosiu, Petru-Daniel
Pinaya, Walter Hugo Lopez
Graham, Mark S.
Borges, Pedro
Fernandez, Virginia
Yang, Dai
Appleyard, Jeremy
Novati, Guido
Mehra, Disha
Vella, Mike
Nachev, Parashkev
Ourselin, Sebastien
Cardoso, Jorge
Publication Year :
2022

Abstract

Human anatomy, morphology, and associated diseases can be studied using medical imaging data. However, access to medical imaging data is restricted by governance and privacy concerns, data ownership, and the cost of acquisition, thus limiting our ability to understand the human body. A possible solution to this issue is the creation of a model able to learn and then generate synthetic images of the human body conditioned on specific characteristics of relevance (e.g., age, sex, and disease status). Deep generative models, in the form of neural networks, have been recently used to create synthetic 2D images of natural scenes. Still, the ability to produce high-resolution 3D volumetric imaging data with correct anatomical morphology has been hampered by data scarcity and algorithmic and computational limitations. This work proposes a generative model that can be scaled to produce anatomically correct, high-resolution, and realistic images of the human brain, with the necessary quality to allow further downstream analyses. The ability to generate a potentially unlimited amount of data not only enables large-scale studies of human anatomy and pathology without jeopardizing patient privacy, but also significantly advances research in the field of anomaly detection, modality synthesis, learning under limited data, and fair and ethical AI. Code and trained models are available at: https://github.com/AmigoLab/SynthAnatomy.<br />Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, accepted at SASHIMI MICCAI 2022

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2209.03177
Document Type :
Working Paper