Marrying Generative Model of Healthcare Events with Digital Twin of Social Determinants of Health for Disease Reasoning
On the map: Diffusion models → Medical imaging and segmentation
Abstract (arXiv)
Despite the central role of sensor-derived measurements such as imaging traits and plasma biomarkers in biomedical research and clinical practice, existing generative models for disease prediction largely depend on event-level representations from hospital and registry data. Given the multi-factorial nature of human disease, the absence of explicit modeling of social determinants of health (SDoH), even in the limited form of ICD-coded proxies (chapters Z and V--Y in ICD-10), limits the capacity for personalized disease modeling and clinical decision support. To address this limitation, we propose a generative model with ICD-coded proxies of SDoH for textitin silico modeling of disease reasoning, a conditioned latent diffusion framework that establishes the connection between multi-organ sensor data with tokenized healthcare events. Specifically, we introduce a novel geometric diffusion model to characterize the temporal evolution of complex data representation such as brain networks (region-to-region connectivity encoded in a graph), in parallel with diffusion models for tabular data from other organ systems. Together, we integrate the generative model with digitalized SDoH proxies (coined modelname) for simulated intervention and reasoning of future disease trajectories. We conduct extensive experiments on the UK Biobank (UKB) dataset, which contains organ-specific imaging traits, including brain (44,834), heart (23,987), liver (28,722), and kidney (32,155), along with nearly 500k medical history sequences (age range: 25~89 years). Our modelname achieves significant improvements over state-of-the-art human disease autoregressive models and imaging trait generative baselines.
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