Latent Diffusion Autoencoders: Toward Efficient and Meaningful Unsupervised Representation Learning in Medical Imaging
LDAE introduces a novel diffusion-based framework for learning efficient representations of 3D brain MR images for Alzheimer's disease (AD). It uses a compressed latent space and pre-trained diffusion models to generate high-fidelity reconstructions and extract clinically meaningful semantic codes, enabling attribute manipulation of scans.