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    • Neuroimaging
    • Developmental Biology
    • Medical Artificial Intelligence

    Background:

    • Longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is vital for tracking brain development over time.
    • Existing fetal brain MRI research is limited by insufficient longitudinal data due to single-scan clinical practices.
    • Clinical fetal MRI datasets lack the necessary paired data across adjacent gestational weeks for longitudinal analysis.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To address the scarcity of longitudinal fetal brain MRI data.
    • To generate synthetic MRI data for two adjacent gestational weeks (GWs) within a single subject.
    • To bridge the data gap for studying fetal brain development across consecutive GWs.

    Main Methods:

    • Proposed a novel Development-driven Diffusion Model (DDM) for fetal MRI prediction.
    • Trained a conditional diffusion model using population-level developmental data across all GWs.
    • Incorporated individual subject development information during inference using a perception feature guidance module.

    Main Results:

    • The DDM successfully generated 3D MR images capturing both general developmental characteristics and individual-specific features.
    • Experiments on a large-scale clinical dataset from three medical centers validated the model's effectiveness.
    • The approach effectively generated longitudinal MR images of fetal brains, overcoming data heterogeneity and lack of paired data.

    Conclusions:

    • The Development-driven Diffusion Model (DDM) is an effective method for generating longitudinal fetal brain MRI data.
    • This approach overcomes significant challenges in fetal MRI prediction, including data heterogeneity and the lack of paired training data.
    • DDM provides a viable solution for enhancing longitudinal studies of fetal brain development using clinical MRI data.