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Wei Peng¹, Tomas Bosschieter², Jiahong Ouyang³

¹Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, United States of America.

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BrainSynth generates realistic synthetic brain MRIs using a novel diffusion model. These synthetic images capture crucial anatomical details, improving AI models for neuroscience research and aiding underrepresented data samples.

Keywords:

Generative model Metadata Neuroimaging Synthesis

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Area of Science:

Artificial Intelligence
Neuroscience
Medical Imaging

Background:

Generative models can create synthetic medical images, including brain MRIs.
Current AI research prioritizes visual quality over neuroscience relevance in synthetic MRIs.
There is a need for synthetic MRIs that accurately reflect neuroanatomical properties.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a generative model (BrainSynth) for high-quality, neuroscience-relevant synthetic T1-weighted MRIs.
To synthesize high-resolution MRIs conditioned on metadata like age and sex.
To evaluate the anatomical plausibility and neuroscience relevance of synthesized MRIs.

Main Methods:

A two-stage Diffusion Probabilistic Model (BrainSynth) was employed.
Synthesis of high-resolution T1-weighted MRIs was conditioned on metadata (age, sex).
A novel assessment procedure evaluated macrostructural properties and age/sex encoding in synthetic MRIs.

Main Results:

Over half of the brain regions in synthetic MRIs demonstrated anatomical plausibility.
Anatomical plausibility varied across cortical regions based on geometric complexity.
BrainSynth-generated MRIs significantly improved training for a predictive model of accelerated aging.

Conclusions:

BrainSynth accurately captures essential brain anatomical information.
The model can enrich data for underrepresented samples in neuroscience studies.
Synthetic MRIs hold potential for advancing AI-driven neuroscience discovery.