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arxiv: 2605.24065 · v1 · pith:SQ2M2DTVnew · submitted 2026-05-22 · 💻 cs.CV

fMRI-Diffusion: Generating fMRI Time Series Via a Temporal Transformer Diffusion Model for Major Depressive Disorder Diagnosis

Muhammad Asif Hasan , Yanming Zhu , Xuefei Yin , Alan Wee-Chung Liew This is my paper

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keywords fMRI time seriesdiffusion modelmajor depressive disordertemporal transformerdata augmentationfunctional connectivityMDD diagnosis
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Synthesizing fMRI time series with a temporal transformer diffusion model improves MDD diagnostic accuracy when used for data augmentation.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper develops a diffusion model whose denoiser is a temporal transformer that generates full fMRI time series at the ROI level instead of static connectivity matrices. These synthetic series are then turned into functional connectivity matrices and added to limited real training sets for major depressive disorder classification. Experiments across ten classifiers, six atlases, and three sites on the REST-meta-MDD dataset show consistent accuracy gains, reaching up to 3.7 percentage points above the best prior matrix-level synthesis methods. The approach is motivated by the loss of temporal structure when augmentation happens only at the matrix stage.

Core claim

A temporal transformer placed inside a denoising diffusion probabilistic model, after supervised pretraining, produces synthetic fMRI time series whose derived functional connectivity matrices augment training data and raise MDD classification accuracy by up to 3.7 points over strong FC-based baselines while keeping distributional fidelity metrics below 0.06.

What carries the argument

The Temporal Transformer denoising network inside the diffusion model, which treats each time point as a token and applies self-attention to capture temporal dependencies before FC matrices are computed from the output series.

If this is right

  • Augmenting with the generated time series beats five recent FC-matrix synthesis methods on the same dataset and evaluation protocol.
  • The gains hold across ten different classifiers and six different brain parcellation atlases.
  • Ablation tests show both the transformer architecture and the supervised pretraining step contribute to the observed improvements.
  • The synthetic series maintain close distributional agreement with real data as measured by multiple fidelity metrics.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same time-series synthesis step could be tested on other psychiatric conditions that also rely on fMRI connectivity for diagnosis under small-sample regimes.
  • One could measure whether the generated series improve performance when the downstream task is changed from binary MDD diagnosis to severity regression or treatment-response prediction.

Load-bearing premise

That accuracy gains measured on augmented training sets from the REST-meta-MDD dataset will appear on new clinical scans without introducing artifacts or shifts that reduce real diagnostic value.

What would settle it

Running the same classifiers on an independent clinical fMRI collection drawn from scanners and sites outside the original three acquisition centers and checking whether the synthetic-augmented models still outperform the unaugmented and matrix-only baselines.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.24065 by Alan Wee-Chung Liew, Muhammad Asif Hasan, Xuefei Yin, Yanming Zhu.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of the proposed fMRI-Diffusion framework for synthesizing fMRI time-series data. The framework consists of two main stages. (1) Training (top), which follows the standard DDPM framework with a forward diffusion process and a reverse denoising process. In the forward process, Gaussian noise is progressively added to the original fMRI time series. In the reverse process, a Temporal Transformer serve… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Architecture of the Transformer-based denoising network used in the proposed fMRI-Diffusion framework. The model combines temporal encoding and timestep embedding with the noisy fMRI input, processes the sequence through multi-head self-attention and feed-forward layers, and outputs the predicted noise for each diffusion step to guide the reverse denoising process. where 𝛽𝑡 controls the noise schedule at s… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: PCA, t-SNE, and UMAP visualizations of real and synthetic fMRI data generated by the proposed fMRI-Diffusion model for the MDD and NC classes. Each point corresponds to a single time point (ROI activation pattern). Blue and yellow points denote real and synthetic data, respectively. The substantial overlap between the two distributions across all three embedding methods indicates that the proposed model ef… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Diagnosing Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) using functional connectivity (FC) analysis requires large amounts of labeled data that are scarce in clinical settings. Existing augmentation methods synthesize FC matrices, which compress fMRI recordings into static pairwise summaries and discard temporal information. We propose fMRI-Diffusion, a framework that synthesizes region-of-interest (ROI)-level fMRI time series rather than FC matrices. A Temporal Transformer serves as the denoising network within a denoising diffusion probabilistic model, treating each time point as a token to capture temporal dependencies through self-attention. A supervised pretraining strategy initializes the Transformer with task-relevant representations before diffusion training, and FC matrices are derived from the synthesized time series for classification. Experiments on the REST-meta-MDD dataset show that augmenting training data with synthetic time series consistently improves diagnostic accuracy across ten classifiers, six parcellation atlases, and three acquisition sites. The method outperforms five recent FC-based synthesis approaches, with accuracy gains of up to 3.7 percentage points over the strongest baseline. Ablation studies confirm the contributions of both the Transformer-based denoiser and the pretraining strategy. Distributional fidelity metrics remain below 0.06 across all conditions, indicating close agreement between real and synthetic distributions. These findings suggest that synthesizing fMRI time series before FC computation preserves temporal information lost in matrix-level augmentation and provides a practical strategy for MDD diagnosis under limited data.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces fMRI-Diffusion, a denoising diffusion probabilistic model whose denoiser is a Temporal Transformer that treats time points as tokens to synthesize ROI-level fMRI time series. Synthetic series are converted to FC matrices and used to augment limited labeled data for MDD classification. On the REST-meta-MDD dataset the approach yields accuracy gains of up to 3.7 percentage points over five recent FC-matrix synthesis baselines across ten classifiers, six parcellation atlases and three acquisition sites; distributional fidelity metrics remain below 0.06 and ablations attribute gains to the transformer architecture and supervised pretraining.

Significance. If the reported gains prove robust, the work offers a practical route to data augmentation that retains temporal structure lost when synthesizing FC matrices directly. The breadth of the evaluation (multiple classifiers, atlases and sites) supplies evidence that the benefit is not confined to a single experimental configuration. The absence of any external-cohort validation, however, limits the immediate clinical significance; the result remains an in-distribution demonstration on a single public dataset.

major comments (2)
  1. [Experiments] Experiments section: accuracy gains up to 3.7 pp are stated without reported p-values, confidence intervals or correction for multiple comparisons across the ten classifiers and six atlases; this information is required to substantiate the claim of 'consistent' improvement.
  2. [Methods] Methods section: the supervised pretraining objective and the precise task used to initialize the Temporal Transformer are described at a high level only; without the loss formulation or the amount of labeled data used for pretraining it is impossible to assess how much of the final performance is attributable to this step versus the diffusion training itself.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the distributional fidelity metric is reported only as 'below 0.06' without naming the distance (MMD, Wasserstein, etc.) or the precise features on which it is computed.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive comments, which help strengthen the manuscript. We address each major point below and will revise accordingly.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: [Experiments] Experiments section: accuracy gains up to 3.7 pp are stated without reported p-values, confidence intervals or correction for multiple comparisons across the ten classifiers and six atlases; this information is required to substantiate the claim of 'consistent' improvement.

    Authors: We agree that statistical rigor is essential to support the claim of consistent improvement. In the revised manuscript we will add p-values (using paired Wilcoxon signed-rank tests on the per-fold accuracies), 95% confidence intervals, and Bonferroni correction for the 60 comparisons (10 classifiers × 6 atlases). Updated tables and text will report these statistics. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Methods] Methods section: the supervised pretraining objective and the precise task used to initialize the Temporal Transformer are described at a high level only; without the loss formulation or the amount of labeled data used for pretraining it is impossible to assess how much of the final performance is attributable to this step versus the diffusion training itself.

    Authors: We acknowledge the description is high-level. The pretraining attaches a linear classification head to the Temporal Transformer and optimizes cross-entropy loss on the MDD binary label using the labeled training subjects from REST-meta-MDD. We will expand the Methods section with the exact loss equation, head architecture, and the precise number of labeled subjects used for pretraining (distinct from the diffusion-stage data) so readers can evaluate its contribution. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical augmentation results are independent of fitted parameters

full rationale

The paper proposes a temporal transformer diffusion model to synthesize ROI-level fMRI time series, derives FC matrices from them, and reports accuracy gains (up to 3.7 pp) when augmenting classifiers on REST-meta-MDD. These are direct experimental outcomes measured on held-out real data splits across 10 classifiers, 6 atlases, and 3 sites. No equations, uniqueness theorems, or self-citations are invoked to derive the performance numbers; the gains are not forced by construction from any fitted input or prior author work. Distributional fidelity (<0.06) is reported as a separate check but does not define the accuracy metric. The evaluation is self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

Only the abstract is available, so the ledger reflects high-level design choices. The approach relies on standard diffusion and transformer components whose effectiveness for fMRI is assumed rather than derived.

free parameters (2)
  • diffusion model hyperparameters
    Noise schedule, number of diffusion steps, and transformer dimensions are chosen by hand or tuned but not detailed in the abstract.
  • pretraining objective weights
    The supervised pretraining strategy uses task-relevant representations whose exact formulation and weighting are not specified.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Self-attention over time-point tokens captures clinically relevant temporal dependencies in fMRI signals
    Invoked by the choice of temporal transformer as denoiser.

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