分离病变生长与信号变化,用物理方程约束脑病进展预测。
Physics-Grounded Disentangled Flow Modeling for Brain Disease Progression Trajectory

- 分解病变演化为形态与强度两类过程,分别建模。
- 在三个数据集上达到当前最优,显著提升可解释性。
- 适合医学影像分析、神经疾病研究者使用。
预测纵向脑病变演变对疾病监测和治疗规划至关重要。现有方法通常直接从基线图像映射到未来观测结果,未显式建模病变进展的物理机制。这种结构形变与图像强度变化的纠缠建模限制了物理合理性、模型泛化性和可解释性。为此,我们提出PDF框架,一种基于物理的解耦流匹配方法,用于纵向脑病预测。我们显式将病变生长的建模分解为两个过程:形态演化(捕捉病变增长与结构形变)和强度演化(建模由病变浓度变化驱动的信号变化)。为引入物理约束,设计基于病变生长动力学的PDE正则化损失,强制采用扩散-反应-对流公式描述形态演化。在三个涵盖多种脑疾病的公开纵向数据集上实验表明,该方法性能达当前最优,验证了解耦建模与物理驱动学习设计的有效性。代码已公开于https://github.com/jhuldr/PDF。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Forecasting longitudinal brain lesion evolution is critical for disease monitoring and treatment planning. Existing approaches typically learn a direct mapping from a baseline image to a future observation, without explicitly modeling the physical mechanisms underlying the lesion progression. Such an entangled modeling of structural deformation and image intensity variation limits physical plausibility, model generalization, and interpretability. To address this, we propose PDF, a Physics-grounded Disentangled Flow matching framework for longitudinal brain disease forecasting. We explicitly decompose the longitudinal modeling of lesion growth into two processes, each learned by a dedicated flow matching network: morphology evolution, which captures lesion growth and structural deformation; and intensity evolution, which models signal changes driven by variations in lesion concentration. To enforce physics-grounded constraints, we introduce a PDE-regularized loss based on lesion growth dynamics, that enforces a diffusion-reaction-advection formulation for morphological evolution. Experiments on three public longitudinal datasets spanning diverse brain diseases demonstrate state-of-the-art performance, validating the effectiveness of the disentangled modeling framework and physics-grounded learning design. Code is publicly available at https://github.com/jhuldr/PDF.
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