Self-supervised Disentanglement of Disease Effects from Aging in 3D Medical Shapes

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• The proposed two-stage framework combines unsupervised disease discovery with self-supervised disentanglement of implicit shape representations to separate pathological changes from physiological aging in 3D medical shapes.method 95%
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  To address this challenge, we propose a two-stage framework combining unsupervised disease discovery with self-supervised disentanglement of implicit shape representations.

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• The method achieves near-supervised performance on ADNI hippocampus and OAI distal femur shapes, improving disentanglement and reconstruction over state-of-the-art unsupervised baselines.result 90%
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  On ADNI hippocampus and OAI distal femur shapes, we achieve near-supervised performance, improving disentanglement and reconstruction over state-of-the-art unsupervised baselines.

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• The framework enables high-fidelity reconstruction, controllable synthesis, and factor-based explainability of 3D medical shapes.technical 85%
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  while enabling high-fidelity reconstruction, controllable synthesis, and factor-based explainability.

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• The method uses pseudo disease labels discovered through clustering on shape latent space without ground-truth diagnosis during discovery.method 90%
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  We then apply clustering on the shape latent space, which yields pseudo disease labels without using ground-truth diagnosis during discovery.

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  Explicit description of the unsupervised labeling approach

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• The disentanglement is enforced using a multi-objective loss combining covariance and supervised contrastive loss with pseudo disease labels and ground truth age labels.technical 88%
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  We enforce separation and controllability with a multi-objective disentanglement loss combining covariance and a supervised contrastive loss.

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• The method requires high-quality 3D medical imaging data which may not be available in all clinical settings.limitation 80%
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  Requires high-quality 3D medical imaging data which may not be available in all clinical settings

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  Stated as a caveat in the analysis section

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• Model performance depends on the quality of unsupervised clustering which could introduce biases.limitation 75%
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  Model performance depends on the quality of unsupervised clustering which could introduce biases

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• The approach is particularly valuable for pharmaceutical companies to improve patient selection for drug trials by identifying disease-specific biomarkers.market 70%
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  Pharmaceutical companies and clinical research organizations would pay for this product to improve patient selection for drug trials by identifying disease-specific biomarkers

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A framework for disentangling disease effects from aging in 3D medical shapes to enhance biomarker development.