用数学模型同时模拟肿瘤和周围组织演化,让数字孪生更真实可信。
Anatomy-DT: A Cross-Diffusion Digital Twin for Anatomical Evolution
- 结合偏微分方程与可微学习,建模肿瘤与邻近结构的协同演变。
- 在合成与临床数据上均实现顶尖精度,且保持解剖结构不重叠。
- 适合医学影像建模、数字孪生与疾病进展预测的研究者使用。
从基线影像准确建模肿瘤形态的时空演变,是构建可模拟疾病进展与治疗反应的数字孪生框架的前提。现有方法多聚焦肿瘤生长,忽略邻近解剖结构的同步变化。实际上,肿瘤演化高度非线性且异质,不仅受治疗干预影响,还受空间上下文及与邻近组织的相互作用制约。因此,需联合建模肿瘤与周围解剖结构,以获得全面且具临床意义的疾病动态理解。我们提出一个基于数学原理的框架,融合机制性偏微分方程与可微深度学习。解剖结构表示为单纯形上的多类别概率场,通过交叉扩散反应-扩散系统演化,强制类间竞争与互斥。采用可微隐式-显式求解方案,刚性扩散项隐式处理,非线性反应与事件项显式处理,再投影回单纯形。为进一步提升全局合理性,引入拓扑正则化项,同时保持中心线连续性并惩罚区域重叠。该方法在合成数据集与临床数据集上验证。在合成基准测试中,本方法达到当前最优精度,且保持拓扑一致性;在临床数据上亦表现优越。通过整合PDE动力学、拓扑感知正则化与可微求解器,本工作为实现视觉逼真、解剖互斥、拓扑一致的解剖到解剖生成提供了原则性路径。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Accurately modeling the spatiotemporal evolution of tumor morphology from baseline imaging is a pre-requisite for developing digital twin frameworks that can simulate disease progression and treatment response. Most existing approaches primarily characterize tumor growth while neglecting the concomitant alterations in adjacent anatomical structures. In reality, tumor evolution is highly non-linear and heterogeneous, shaped not only by therapeutic interventions but also by its spatial context and interaction with neighboring tissues. Therefore, it is critical to model tumor progression in conjunction with surrounding anatomy to obtain a comprehensive and clinically relevant understanding of disease dynamics. We introduce a mathematically grounded framework that unites mechanistic partial differential equations with differentiable deep learning. Anatomy is represented as a multi-class probability field on the simplex and evolved by a cross-diffusion reaction-diffusion system that enforces inter-class competition and exclusivity. A differentiable implicit-explicit scheme treats stiff diffusion implicitly while handling nonlinear reaction and event terms explicitly, followed by projection back to the simplex. To further enhance global plausibility, we introduce a topology regularizer that simultaneously enforces centerline preservation and penalizes region overlaps. The approach is validated on synthetic datasets and a clinical dataset. On synthetic benchmarks, our method achieves state-of-the-art accuracy while preserving topology, and also demonstrates superior performance on the clinical dataset. By integrating PDE dynamics, topology-aware regularization, and differentiable solvers, this work establishes a principled path toward anatomy-to-anatomy generation for digital twins that are visually realistic, anatomically exclusive, and topologically consistent.
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