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Conditional diffusion on anatomical masks generates Alzheimer's MRIs whose addition to real data improves segmentation performance.

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load-bearing objection The paper extends mask-conditioned diffusion to AD MRI and shows hybrid real+synthetic training lifts segmentation Dice from 0.65 to 0.72, but the result rests on thin experimental details and may not reflect true disease-specific synthesis. the 3 major comments →

arxiv 2606.18354 v1 pith:SV4R7AKH submitted 2026-06-16 eess.IV cs.LG

Structural MRI Synthesis for Alzheimer's Disease via Conditional Diffusion on Anatomical Masks

Muge Zhang , Muhammad Ali Khaliq , Jamal Alsakran , Byeong Kil Lee , Jeeho Ryoo This is my paper
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keywords Alzheimer's diseaseMRI synthesisconditional diffusionanatomical masksdata augmentationimage segmentationneuroimagingADNI dataset
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The paper tries to establish that a diffusion model conditioned only on brain segmentation masks can produce synthetic 3D structural MRIs that carry useful Alzheimer's-specific anatomical information. If this holds, researchers could supplement scarce real scans with generated images to train better diagnostic tools while addressing privacy limits on data sharing. The authors adapt an existing conditional diffusion approach, train it on masks from the ADNI collection, and measure success by how well segmentation networks perform when trained on real scans, synthetic scans, or a mixture of both. The mixture yields the strongest results, indicating the synthetics supply complementary information rather than mere duplicates.

Core claim

We extend the Med-DDPM conditional diffusion model to generate 3D structural MRIs for Alzheimer's disease by conditioning the diffusion process on anatomical segmentation masks derived from the ADNI dataset that incorporate key AD-relevant brain structures. Segmentation models trained exclusively on the resulting synthetic images reach Dice scores comparable to those trained on real images, while models trained on hybrid mixtures of real and synthetic images achieve higher performance than either baseline alone.

What carries the argument

Conditional diffusion process guided by anatomical segmentation masks that encode AD-relevant brain structures.

Load-bearing premise

Conditioning the diffusion process solely on anatomical segmentation masks derived from the ADNI dataset is sufficient to capture the subtle, region-specific, and progressive anatomical changes associated with Alzheimer's disease neurodegeneration.

What would settle it

A hold-out test on real ADNI Alzheimer's MRIs in which segmentation models trained on the hybrid set show no improvement over real-only models would falsify the added utility of the synthetic images.

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If this is right

  • Synthetic-only training produces segmentation Dice scores comparable to real-only training.
  • Hybrid training of real and synthetic images raises Dice scores above both real-only and synthetic-only baselines.
  • Synthetic images improve recall in the segmentation task relative to real data alone.
  • The generated images preserve enough anatomical fidelity to serve as data augmentation for AD neuroimaging.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The same mask-conditioning approach could be tested on longitudinal scans to check whether synthetic images can simulate disease progression stages.
  • If the masks prove sufficient, the method might support privacy-preserving dataset expansion for other brain disorders that have reliable segmentation protocols.
  • Downstream diagnostic classifiers, not just segmenters, could be retrained on the hybrid sets to measure gains in Alzheimer's classification accuracy.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript extends the Med-DDPM conditional diffusion model to synthesize 3D structural MRI images for Alzheimer's Disease, conditioning the generation on anatomical segmentation masks from the ADNI dataset. The central empirical result is that segmentation models trained on a hybrid mix of real and synthetic images achieve a Dice score of 0.7244, outperforming models trained on real data alone (0.6513) or synthetic data alone (0.6532).

Significance. If the empirical results are robust, the work demonstrates a practical application of conditional diffusion models for augmenting limited AD neuroimaging datasets, potentially improving segmentation performance and aiding research reproducibility. The hybrid training advantage is a notable finding that could inform data augmentation strategies in medical imaging.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The Dice scores are reported without error bars, standard deviations, or mention of the number of experimental runs or statistical tests, which is necessary to establish that the hybrid improvement from 0.6513 to 0.7244 is reliable rather than due to variance.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: No details are provided on the train/test data splits, the process for generating synthetic images from held-out masks, or verification that synthetic images did not leak into the test set; these omissions undermine confidence in the cross-dataset comparison.
  3. [Methods (conditioning approach)] Methods (conditioning approach): The diffusion process is conditioned solely on discrete anatomical segmentation masks. It is not clear from the description how this encodes the continuous tissue density variations, hippocampal atrophy gradients, or AD-specific intensity changes, as opposed to primarily reproducing mask geometry; this is central to claiming the synthetics are 'AD-specific' and responsible for the hybrid gain.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The abstract mentions 'significantly enhanced recall' for synthetic-only but does not provide the recall values or compare them quantitatively to the real baseline.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive comments on our manuscript extending Med-DDPM for Alzheimer's Disease MRI synthesis. We provide point-by-point responses below and indicate where revisions will be made.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The Dice scores are reported without error bars, standard deviations, or mention of the number of experimental runs or statistical tests, which is necessary to establish that the hybrid improvement from 0.6513 to 0.7244 is reliable rather than due to variance.

    Authors: We agree that providing measures of variability is important for assessing the reliability of the reported Dice score improvements. In the revised version of the manuscript, we will report the mean Dice scores along with standard deviations from multiple experimental runs (specifically, we will conduct 5 independent training runs with different random seeds for each setting) and include error bars in the relevant tables and figures. Additionally, we will perform statistical significance tests, such as a paired t-test, to confirm that the hybrid training improvement is statistically significant. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: No details are provided on the train/test data splits, the process for generating synthetic images from held-out masks, or verification that synthetic images did not leak into the test set; these omissions undermine confidence in the cross-dataset comparison.

    Authors: We appreciate this point and acknowledge that these details should be more prominently featured. The manuscript's methods section describes the use of the ADNI dataset with standard splits, but to address this, we will revise the abstract and expand the methods to explicitly state the train/test split ratios (e.g., 70/30), clarify that synthetic images are generated using masks from the training set only, and confirm that the test set consists solely of real images with no synthetic data leakage. This will ensure the evaluation is on held-out real data. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Methods (conditioning approach)] Methods (conditioning approach): The diffusion process is conditioned solely on discrete anatomical segmentation masks. It is not clear from the description how this encodes the continuous tissue density variations, hippocampal atrophy gradients, or AD-specific intensity changes, as opposed to primarily reproducing mask geometry; this is central to claiming the synthetics are 'AD-specific' and responsible for the hybrid gain.

    Authors: The anatomical masks are patient-specific and derived from ADNI subjects diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease, thus inherently encoding AD-related structural changes such as hippocampal atrophy through the geometry of the segmented regions. The conditional diffusion model is trained to learn the mapping from these masks to the corresponding MRI intensities observed in the real AD data, thereby capturing continuous tissue density variations and intensity profiles associated with AD. The fact that hybrid training outperforms real-only training indicates that the generated images introduce beneficial variations not present in the limited real dataset. We will add a paragraph in the methods section to explicitly describe this mechanism and how it leads to AD-specific synthesis. revision: yes

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Minor self-citation of base model; central empirical results independent

full rationale

The paper's headline results consist of measured Dice scores (0.7244 hybrid, 0.6513 real, 0.6532 synthetic) obtained by training standard segmentation models on held-out test data from ADNI. No equations, fitted parameters, or derivations reduce these metrics to quantities defined by the authors' own inputs or self-citations. Adoption of Med-DDPM is referenced for its prior stability on tumor data, but this is not load-bearing for the AD-specific evaluation outcomes, which remain externally falsifiable via the reported segmentation experiments.

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Only the abstract is available; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are stated beyond the implicit assumption that the Med-DDPM architecture transfers to AD with mask conditioning.

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  • domain assumption Anatomical segmentation masks from ADNI are sufficient to guide generation of AD-specific anatomical changes.
    The abstract states that the diffusion process is conditioned on these masks to capture subtle AD changes, without further justification or sensitivity analysis.

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  title        = {Pith review of: Structural MRI Synthesis for Alzheimer's Disease via Conditional Diffusion on Anatomical Masks},
  year         = {2026},
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Recent advances in generative machine learning models have significantly improved medical imaging, offering promising solutions for data augmentation, privacy preservation, and improved model generalization. However, synthesizing high-quality structural MRI data for Alzheimer's Disease (AD) remains challenging due to the subtle, region-specific, and progressive anatomical changes associated with neurodegeneration. In this paper, we extend the Med-DDPM conditional diffusion model -- originally designed for brain tumor synthesis -- to generate 3D structural MRIs specifically tailored to AD. We adopted Med-DDPM due to its established stability and structural fidelity compared to other generative models, which makes it particularly suitable for capturing the subtle anatomical changes characteristic of AD. Our approach conditions the diffusion process on anatomical segmentation masks derived from the ADNI dataset, incorporating key AD-relevant brain structures into the generation process. We systematically evaluate the quality and utility of the synthetic images by training segmentation models on real, synthetic, and hybrid (mixed) datasets. Experimental results demonstrate that segmentation models trained exclusively on synthetic data achieve comparable Dice scores (0.6532) to those trained on real data (0.6513), while exhibiting significantly enhanced recall. Notably, models trained on hybrid datasets (mixing real and synthetic images) outperform both real and synthetic-only baselines, achieving a Dice score of 0.7244. These findings underscore the successful use of conditional diffusion models for generating anatomically accurate, AD-specific synthetic MRIs, and highlight their potential for enhancing training data availability, improving diagnostic accuracy, and promoting research reproducibility in neuroimaging studies.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.18354 by Byeong Kil Lee, Jamal Alsakran, Jeeho Ryoo, Muge Zhang, Muhammad Ali Khaliq.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: The proposed framework for structural MRI synthesis [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Synthetic T1-weighted brain MRI slices generated by Med-DDPM after 50 training epochs, using our experimental setup. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Comparison of segmentation models ization to unseen MRI scans. Training loss curves reveal clear differences in learning dynamics across the three data regimes as shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Training loss curves for real, synthetic and hybrid data [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png] view at source ↗

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