Unsupervised anomaly detection using Bayesian flow networks: application to brain FDG PET in the context of Alzheimer's disease

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17486v1
• Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 13:09:57 GMT
• Title: Unsupervised anomaly detection using Bayesian flow networks: application to brain FDG PET in the context of Alzheimer's disease
• Authors: Hugues Roy, Reuben Dorent, Ninon Burgos,
• Abstract summary: Unsupervised anomaly detection plays a crucial role in neuroimaging for identifying deviations from healthy subject data.<n>In this work, we focus on Bayesian flow networks (BFNs), a novel class of generative models, which have not yet been applied to medical imaging or anomaly detection.<n>We introduce AnoBFN, an extension of BFNs for UAD, designed to perform conditional image generation under high levels of spatially correlated noise.<n>We evaluate AnoBFN on the challenging task of Alzheimer's disease-related anomaly detection in FDG PET images.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) plays a crucial role in neuroimaging for identifying deviations from healthy subject data and thus facilitating the diagnosis of neurological disorders. In this work, we focus on Bayesian flow networks (BFNs), a novel class of generative models, which have not yet been applied to medical imaging or anomaly detection. BFNs combine the strength of diffusion frameworks and Bayesian inference. We introduce AnoBFN, an extension of BFNs for UAD, designed to: i) perform conditional image generation under high levels of spatially correlated noise, and ii) preserve subject specificity by incorporating a recursive feedback from the input image throughout the generative process. We evaluate AnoBFN on the challenging task of Alzheimer's disease-related anomaly detection in FDG PET images. Our approach outperforms other state-of-the-art methods based on VAEs (beta-VAE), GANs (f-AnoGAN), and diffusion models (AnoDDPM), demonstrating its effectiveness at detecting anomalies while reducing false positive rates.

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