Toward general text-guided multimodal brain MRI synthesis for diagnosis and medical image analysis.

Authors

Wang Y,Xiong H,Sun K,Bai S,Dai L,Ding Z,Liu J,Wang Q,Liu Q,Shen D

Affiliations (6)

  • School of Biomedical Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Advanced Medical Materials and Devices, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China.
  • School of Biomedical Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Advanced Medical Materials and Devices, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China; Shanghai Clinical Research and Trial Center, Shanghai 201210, China.
  • Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hangzhou First People's Hospital, Xihu University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310030, China.
  • School of Biomedical Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Advanced Medical Materials and Devices, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China; Shanghai Clinical Research and Trial Center, Shanghai 201210, China. Electronic address: [email protected].
  • Key Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering of Hainan Province, One Health Institute, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China. Electronic address: [email protected].
  • School of Biomedical Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Advanced Medical Materials and Devices, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China; Shanghai Clinical Research and Trial Center, Shanghai 201210, China; Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co. Ltd., Shanghai 200230, China. Electronic address: [email protected].

Abstract

Multimodal brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers complementary insights into brain structure and function, thereby improving the diagnostic accuracy of neurological disorders and advancing brain-related research. However, the widespread applicability of MRI is substantially limited by restricted scanner accessibility and prolonged acquisition times. Here, we present TUMSyn, a text-guided universal MRI synthesis model capable of generating brain MRI specified by textual imaging metadata from routinely acquired scans. We ensure the reliability of TUMSyn by constructing a brain MRI database comprising 31,407 3D images across 7 MRI modalities from 13 worldwide centers and pre-training an MRI-specific text encoder to process text prompts effectively. Experiments on diverse datasets and physician assessments indicate that TUMSyn-generated images can be utilized along with acquired MRI scan(s) to facilitate large-scale MRI-based screening and diagnosis of multiple brain diseases, substantially reducing the time and cost of MRI in the healthcare system.

Topics

Magnetic Resonance ImagingBrainMultimodal ImagingImage Processing, Computer-AssistedBrain DiseasesJournal Article

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