Bidirectional Modeling and Analysis of Brain Aging with Normalizing Flows

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13484v1
• Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 22:23:48 GMT
• Title: Bidirectional Modeling and Analysis of Brain Aging with Normalizing Flows
• Authors: Matthias Wilms and Jordan J. Bannister and Pauline Mouches and M. Ethan MacDonald and Deepthi Rajashekar and S\"onke Langner and Nils D. Forkert
• Abstract summary: We show that our normalizing flow brain aging model can accurately predict brain age while also being able to generate age-specific brain morphology templates. This work is a step towards unified modeling of functional relationships between 3D brain morphology and clinical variables of interest with powerful normalizing flows.
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• Abstract: Brain aging is a widely studied longitudinal process throughout which the brain undergoes considerable morphological changes and various machine learning approaches have been proposed to analyze it. Within this context, brain age prediction from structural MR images and age-specific brain morphology template generation are two problems that have attracted much attention. While most approaches tackle these tasks independently, we assume that they are inverse directions of the same functional bidirectional relationship between a brain's morphology and an age variable. In this paper, we propose to model this relationship with a single conditional normalizing flow, which unifies brain age prediction and age-conditioned generative modeling in a novel way. In an initial evaluation of this idea, we show that our normalizing flow brain aging model can accurately predict brain age while also being able to generate age-specific brain morphology templates that realistically represent the typical aging trend in a healthy population. This work is a step towards unified modeling of functional relationships between 3D brain morphology and clinical variables of interest with powerful normalizing flows.

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