Predicting Brain Morphometry with MT-GNN: Mesh Evolution in Continuous Time with Graph-Based Metric Tensor Embeddings

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05132v1
• Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:53:33 GMT
• Title: Predicting Brain Morphometry with MT-GNN: Mesh Evolution in Continuous Time with Graph-Based Metric Tensor Embeddings
• Abstract summary: A single per-structure graph network predicts the future per-vertex first fundamental form (metric tensor) for an arbitrary causal multiple-visit history.<n>The predicted metric is decoded into a surface by a differentiable As-Rigid-As-Possible solver.<n>On 14 subcortical structures from the ADNI dataset, the proposed mesh evolution model (MT-GNN) predicts best among the evaluated methods at every horizon.
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• Abstract: Predicting how a subcortical structure's shape will evolve from a few prior scans could support prognosis and clinical-trial enrichment. Existing longitudinal mesh predictors either extrapolate shape trajectories via high-dimensional embeddings or regress vertex deformations directly. We instead predict the surface's intrinsic geometry in continuous time: a single per-structure graph network predicts the future per-vertex first fundamental form (metric tensor) for an arbitrary causal multiple-visit history and an arbitrary prediction horizon, conditioned on a Fourier encoding of the lead time. The predicted metric is decoded into a surface by a differentiable As-Rigid-As-Possible solver, and the model is trained end-to-end on the rigid-aligned vertex error. Training through the reconstruction keeps the decoded prediction a valid surface and consistently improves it. On 14 subcortical structures from the ADNI dataset, the proposed mesh evolution model (MT-GNN) predicts best among the evaluated methods at every horizon ($-2.29\%$ mean vertex error vs. the temporal mean, $p{=}6.1{\times}10^{-5}$, beating it on 14/14 structures), ahead of geodesic shape regression (DCM, $-0.19\%$) and a mesh transformer (TransforMesh, $-0.45\%$; $p{=}1.2{\times}10^{-4}$), with the lead widening as the horizon grows.

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