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Explicit Temporal Embedding in Deep Generative Latent Models for Longitudinal Medical Image Synthesis

13 Jan 2023arXiv:2301.05465archive 2025-07-28

Julian Schön, Raghavendra Selvan, Lotte Nygård, Ivan Richter Vogelius, Jens Petersen

Medical imaging plays a vital role in modern diagnostics and treatment. The temporal nature of disease or treatment progression often results in longitudinal data. Due to the cost and potential harm, acquiring large medical datasets necessary for deep learning can be difficult. Medical image synthesis could help mitigate this problem. However, until now, the availability of GANs capable of synthesizing longitudinal volumetric data has been limited. To address this, we use the recent advances in latent space-based image editing to propose a novel joint learning scheme to explicitly embed temporal dependencies in the latent space of GANs. This, in contrast to previous methods, allows us to synthesize continuous, smooth, and high-quality longitudinal volumetric data with limited supervision. We show the effectiveness of our approach on three datasets containing different longitudinal dependencies. Namely, modeling a simple image transformation, breathing motion, and tumor regression, all while showing minimal disentanglement. The implementation is made available online at https://github.com/julschoen/Temp-GAN.

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