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New MUMINS framework synthesizes medical images with uncertainty mapping

Researchers have developed MUMINS, a novel diffusion framework for medical image synthesis that addresses the challenges of forecasting anatomical changes. This method jointly synthesizes a baseline scan and its follow-up residual, producing the next-state scan while simultaneously generating a spatial uncertainty map in a single process. MUMINS uses the baseline scan as a soft anchor at each denoising step and learns an uncertainty map to highlight error-prone regions, outperforming existing state-of-the-art methods on lung CT and brain MRI datasets. AI

IMPACT This research could improve the accuracy and efficiency of medical image forecasting, aiding in diagnosis and treatment planning.

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New MUMINS framework synthesizes medical images with uncertainty mapping

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Anna Oliveras, Roger Mar\'i, Rafael Redondo, Oriol Guardi\`a, Cynthia Ifeyinwa Ugwu, Ana Tost, Bhalaji Nagarajan, Carolina Migliorelli, Vicent Ribas, Petia Radeva ·

    MUMINS: Metadata-conditioned Uncertainty-aware Medical Image Next-state Synthesis

    arXiv:2609.17169v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Forecasting anatomical changes such as tumor growth and neurodegeneration is a challenging generative vision task. Morphological evolution is subtle relative to static anatomy, highly patient-specific, and inherently stochastic. E…