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This research introduces a novel multimodal latent diffusion framework that jointly synthesizes volumetric MRI scans and tabular clinical data within a shared latent space using cross-attention mechanisms. By successfully generating anatomically plausible images consistent with synthesized patient attributes, the study establishes a critical proof-of-concept for creating coherent synthetic multimodal datasets to address privacy concerns in healthcare AI. The work represents a significant methodological advance in generative modeling for medical imaging rather than a product release or policy shift.
Multimodal synthesis of MRI and tabular data with diffusion in a joint latent space via cross-attention
arXiv:2605.06699v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose a multimodal latent diffusion model that jointly synthesizes volumetric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and tabular clinical data within a shared latent space via cross-attention. This approach enables coherent joint representation learning of MRI and tabular modalities for generative modeling. Our model utilizes a variational autoencoder to fuse the two modalities before diffusion-based synthesis, allowing modality-appropriate reconstruction with separate decoders for MRI and tabular data. We evaluated the framework on data from the German National Cohort (NAKO Gesundheitsstudie), comprising over 10,000 participants with MRI scans and clinical tabular features such as age, sex, body measurements, and ethnicity. The generated MRI volumes exhibited anatomical plausibility and body composition consistent with the synthesized tabular attributes. Quantitative evaluation using Fr\'echet distance and precision-recall metrics confirmed high-fidelity image generation. In the tabular modality, our model outperformed CTGAN across standard evaluation metrics and achieved results comparable to TVAE, demonstrating competitive performance relative to established unimodal baselines. This work is, to our knowledge, the first to demonstrate the feasibility of jointly modeling MRI and mixed-type tabular data in a single latent diffusion framework, offering a proof-of-concept for generating coherent synthetic multimodal patient data and aligning with the broader goal of developing digital twins in healthcare.
Abstract:We propose a multimodal latent diffusion model that jointly synthesizes volumetric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and tabular clinical data within a shared latent space via cross-attention. This approach enables coherent joint representation learning of MRI and tabular modalities for generative modeling. Our model utilizes a variational autoencoder to fuse the two modalities before diffusion-based synthesis, allowing modality-appropriate reconstruction with separate decoders for MRI and tabular data. We evaluated the framework on data from the German National Cohort (NAKO Gesundheitsstudie), comprising over 10,000 participants with MRI scans and clinical tabular features such as age, sex, body measurements, and ethnicity. The generated MRI volumes exhibited anatomical plausibility and body composition consistent with the synthesized tabular attributes. Quantitative evaluation using Fréchet distance and precision-recall metrics confirmed high-fidelity image generation. In the tabular modality, our model outperformed CTGAN across standard evaluation metrics and achieved results comparable to TVAE, demonstrating competitive performance relative to established unimodal baselines. This work is, to our knowledge, the first to demonstrate the feasibility of jointly modeling MRI and mixed-type tabular data in a single latent diffusion framework, offering a proof-of-concept for generating coherent synthetic multimodal patient data and aligning with the broader goal of developing digital twins in healthcare.
Image and Video Processing (eess.IV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
arXiv:2605.06699 [eess.IV]
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Proc. SPIE 13925, Medical Imaging 2026: Image Processing, 139252D (April 03, 2026)
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