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Paul Segars

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AbdomenGen: Sequential Volume-Conditioned Diffusion Framework for Abdominal Anatomy Generation

Computational phantoms are widely used in medical imaging research, yet current systems to generate controlled, clinically meaningful anatomical variations remain limited. We present AbdomenGen, a sequential volume-conditioned diffusion framework for controllable abdominal anatomy generation. We introduce the \textbf{Volume Control Scalar (VCS)}, a standardized residual that decouples organ size from body habitus, enabling interpretable volume modulation. Organ masks are synthesized sequentially, conditioning on the body mask and previously generated structures to preserve global anatomical coherence while supporting independent, multi-organ control. Across 11 abdominal organs, the proposed framework achieves strong geometric fidelity (e.g., liver dice $0.83 \pm 0.05$), stable single-organ calibration over $[-3,+3]$ VCS, and disentangled multi-organ modulation. To showcase clinical utility with a hepatomegaly cohort selected from MERLIN, Wasserstein-based VCS selection reduces distributional distance of training data by 73.6\% . These results demonstrate calibrated, distribution-aware anatomical generation suitable for controllable abdominal phantom construction and simulation studies.

cs.CV

Virtual Patients, Real Gains: Digital Twin-Based Simulated CT for Multitask Lung Nodule Analysis

AI-based lung cancer screening is constrained by scarce, annotated CT data, particularly for rare nodule presentations. We investigate whether physics-based, anatomy-informed simulated CT can improve AI performance across three lung-nodule tasks: detection, segmentation, and malignancy classification. Using the Virtual Lung Screening Trial framework, we generated 174 digital human twins (XCAT3), embedded 512 procedurally controlled nodules (X-Lesions, 4-30 mm), and simulated CT (DukeSim) under two scanner configurations, yielding 1,044 annotated scans. Combined with clinical data, these trained models for detection (MONAI), segmentation (VISTA3D, nnU-Net), and classification (Med3D), evaluated on external test sets. Detection sensitivity at 1 FP/scan rose from 0.37 to 0.56 (p < 0.001); segmentation improved modestly (Dice 0.61 to 0.64, 0.66 to 0.69); classification AUC rose from 0.78 to 0.87 (p < 0.001). Physics-based virtual imaging trials can help address data scarcity in medical AI.

cs.LG

Proceedings Virtual Imaging Trials in Medicine 2024

This submission comprises the proceedings of the 1st Virtual Imaging Trials in Medicine conference, organized by Duke University on April 22-24, 2024. The listed authors serve as the program directors for this conference. The VITM conference is a pioneering summit uniting experts from academia, industry and government in the fields of medical imaging and therapy to explore the transformative potential of in silico virtual trials and digital twins in revolutionizing healthcare. The proceedings are categorized by the respective days of the conference: Monday presentations, Tuesday presentations, Wednesday presentations, followed by the abstracts for the posters presented on Monday and Tuesday.

physics.med-ph