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Although generative models show promise in simulating disease progression by forecasting future magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequences, generating high-quality MRI with faithful anatomical structures remains challenging.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>To narrow this gap, we proposed a progress map-guided generative adversarial network (pg-GAN) that leverages population-level longitudinal data to enhance individual-level prediction. First, progress maps were constructed by averaging intensity residuals between MRI scans acquired at different time points across a population, thereby preserving the comprehensive volumetric evolution of the brain over time. Then, the progress maps served as spatiotemporal priors and were embedded into a backbone generative adversarial network (GAN) via a proposed feature-wise fusion module (FFM) to predict future MRI for individuals.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We performed extensive experiments on 210 individuals with longitudinal MRIs from the Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) dataset. The results demonstrated that our pg-GAN outperformed other conditioning models. The quantitative results showed that the normalized root mean squared error (NRMSE) decreased from 0.1623 to 0.1549, while the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) increased from 25.9353\u202fdB to 26.3157\u202fdB.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Incorporating group-level progression priors into the generative model can significantly improve the accuracy and anatomical fidelity of predicted MRIs, enhance the visualization of disease progression at the voxel level, and advance the development of precision treatment for AD.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fnagi.2026.1691084","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,4]],"date-time":"2026-02-04T06:37:05Z","timestamp":1770187025000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Forecasting individualized progression of Alzheimer\u2019s disease using structural MRI and population spatiotemporal priors"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Yan","family":"Zhao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Health Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology","place":["Shanghai, China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tongtong","family":"Che","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University","place":["Beijing, China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiuying","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science, The University of Sydney","place":["Sydney, NSW, Australia"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shuyu","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University","place":["Beijing, China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"106688","DOI":"10.1016\/j.knosys.2020.106688","article-title":"Robust hybrid deep learning models for Alzheimer\u2019s progression detection","volume":"213","author":"Abuhmed","year":"2021","journal-title":"Knowl. 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