SMART构建可解释的脑部疾病动态图谱,精准预测阿尔茨海默病进展。
SMART: A Flexible, Interpretable, and Scalable Spatio-temporal Brain Atlas from High-Resolution Imaging Data

- 用区域微分方程建模疾病时间轨迹,分离群体趋势与个体差异。
- 在5个数据集(超1300人)上实现最优预测准确率和时间一致性。
- 适合神经影像学研究者,尤其关注疾病机制可解释性的团队。
我们提出SMART框架,从纵向高分辨率3D医学影像中学习灵活、可解释且可扩展的时空脑图谱。现有方法依赖黑箱生成模型,灵活性差、可解释性低,难以处理高维数据。SMART通过解耦全局疾病动态与个体解剖表现,学习连续的疾病-时间图谱。基于解剖先验,利用区域特异性微分方程建模共享疾病时间轴上的区域进展轨迹;再通过多尺度神经元胞自动机参数化的密集微分同胚位移,将全局轨迹个性化至个体解剖结构。在阿尔茨海默病数据集ADNI-1/GO/2、OASIS-3、AIBL(共>1,300名受试者)上评估,SMART生成了符合解剖学意义的疾病进展预测,预测精度优于对抗式与扩散基线模型,且时间一致性显著提升。该方法为高维医学图像时序变化的建模提供了新范式。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We introduce SMART, a framework for learning a flexible, interpretable, and scalable spatio-temporal brain atlas from longitudinal high-resolution 3D medical images. Existing approaches to spatio-temporal atlas construction rely on black-box generative models that lack flexibility, limit interpretability, and struggle to scale to high-dimensional data. SMART addresses these challenges by learning a continuous disease-time atlas that decouples global group-wise disease dynamics from their patient-specific anatomical manifestation. Guided by anatomically inspired priors, SMART models interpretable global trajectories of regional progression along a shared disease timeline through region-specific differential equations. Global trajectories are further personalized to individual anatomies via dense diffeomorphic displacements parameterized by a flexible and scalable multi-scale Neural Cellular Automata. Evaluated on five longitudinal MRI datasets in Alzheimer's disease (ADNI-1/GO/2, OASIS-3, AIBL; > 1,300 subjects), SMART produces anatomically meaningful predictions of disease progression and achieves state-of-the-art forecasting accuracy and improved temporal consistency over adversarial and diffusion baselines. Our approach establishes a new paradigm for flexible, interpretable, and scalable modeling of spatio-temporal change in high-dimensional medical image time-series.
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