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MedM2G: Unifying Medical Multi-Modal Generation via Cross-Guided Diffusion with Visual Invariant

arXiv 2403.04290 ↗First posted 7 Mar 2024eess.IV cs.CV cs.LGcited by 21

On the map: Diffusion models → Medical imaging and segmentation

Abstract (arXiv)

Medical generative models, acknowledged for their high-quality sample generation ability, have accelerated the fast growth of medical applications. However, recent works concentrate on separate medical generation models for distinct medical tasks and are restricted to inadequate medical multi-modal knowledge, constraining medical comprehensive diagnosis. In this paper, we propose MedM2G, a Medical Multi-Modal Generative framework, with the key innovation to align, extract, and generate medical multi-modal within a unified model. Extending beyond single or two medical modalities, we efficiently align medical multi-modal through the central alignment approach in the unified space. Significantly, our framework extracts valuable clinical knowledge by preserving the medical visual invariant of each imaging modal, thereby enhancing specific medical information for multi-modal generation. By conditioning the adaptive cross-guided parameters into the multi-flow diffusion framework, our model promotes flexible interactions among medical multi-modal for generation. MedM2G is the first medical generative model that unifies medical generation tasks of text-to-image, image-to-text, and unified generation of medical modalities (CT, MRI, X-ray). It performs 5 medical generation tasks across 10 datasets, consistently outperforming various state-of-the-art works.

Key facts. Cited by 21 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Medical imaging and segmentation, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 17 of its 63 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 7 Mar 2024.

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  2. 2024Libra: Leveraging Temporal Images for Biomedical Radiology Analysiscited by 29
  3. 2025MedUnifier: Unifying Vision-and-Language Pre-training on Medical Data with Vision Generation Task using Discrete Visual Representationscited by 11
  4. 2024SimuScope: Realistic Endoscopic Synthetic Dataset Generation through Surgical Simulation and Diffusion Modelscited by 8
  5. 2025Longitudinal Flow Matching for Trajectory Modelingcited by 6
  6. 2024Physics-Inspired Generative Models in Medical Imaging: A Reviewcited by 5
  7. 2024DAMPER: A Dual-Stage Medical Report Generation Framework with Coarse-Grained MeSH Alignment and Fine-Grained Hypergraph Matchingcited by 4
  8. 2024Towards a Universal 3D Medical Multi-modality Generalization via Learning Personalized Invariant Representationcited by 3
  9. 2024MRGen: Segmentation Data Engine for Underrepresented MRI Modalitiescited by 3
  10. 2025MMLNB: Multi-Modal Learning for Neuroblastoma Subtyping Classification Assisted with Textual Description Generationcited by 3
  11. 2026Scalable next-scale autoregression for medical image generation across anatomical regionscited by 3
  12. 2024I2I-Galip: Unsupervised Medical Image Translation Using Generative Adversarial CLIPcited by 2
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  3. 2025Discrete Diffusion Models with MLLMs for Unified Medical Multimodal Generationcited by 1
  4. 2026Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation via a Self-Supervised Semantic Bridgecited by 1
  5. 2025ReBrain: Brain MRI Reconstruction from Sparse CT Slice via Retrieval-Augmented Diffusioncited by 0
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  8. 2026Next-Dense-Stride Prediction for Multimodal Autoregressive Visual Modelingcited by 0
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