Synthesizing realistic tumors on medical images helps address data scarcity for clinical AI. Existing diffusion-based methods, however, lack fine-grained attribute-level controllability, closed-loop quality verification, and awareness of which morphological patterns are underrepresented in the target distribution. We present MATS, a multi-agent framework for text-controllable, cross-organ tumor synthesis. Given a target disease, MATS first profiles its morphological distribution over a fine-grained attribute space covering tumor geometry and appearance, and constructs a generation plan that amplifies underrepresented subtypes while keeping common ones dominant. It then localizes the target organ, proposes anatomically valid placement, and executes two-stage diffusion to produce the tumor mask and render texture, each conditioned on the corresponding attributes. A closed-loop reflective mechanism verifies attribute alignment at three checkpoints throughout synthesis and provides targeted feedback to guide re-generation when misalignment is detected. Trained exclusively on a single-source pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor dataset, MATS consistently improves downstream segmentation both in-domain and across LiTS, KiTS, and MSD-Pancreas benchmarks, whereas most prior generative augmentation methods fall below real-only training.
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Fig. 1: MATS overview. (a) Distribution-aware attribute profiling and generation planning. (b) Sequential mask and image synthesis. (c) Closed-loop feedback with corrective adapters. (d) PNETS samples and morphological attributes.
Fig. 2: Agent preparation of MATS. MFusion and TFusion are trained ahead of the adapters, and the fine-tuned VLM for attribute prediction can be prepared separately.
TABLE I: Segmentation on the 148-case held-out PNETS set. Best in bold ; second-best underlined . The lower panel is per-attribute DSC (%) with nnU-Net v2.
Fig. 3: Synthetic tumors on pancreas, liver, and kidney. Columns compare methods on the same healthy scan.
Fig. 4: Attribute-conditioned examples (left) and z -scores of boundary gradient and mean HU against real tumors (right). The curves are those printed in the figure ( n=168 per method) and are not the 148-case segmentation test set.
Seg. Backbone
Synthesis Method
Liver
Kidneys
Pancreas
nnU-Net v2
Real only
80.7
88.3
61.4
+ DiffTumor † [ 4 ]
73.6
82.5
63.6
+ LesionDiffusion [ 5 ]
79.6
87.6
59.3
+ MATS (Ours)
81.5
90.0
64.3
Swin-UNETR
Real only
75.7
83.9
46.3
+ DiffTumor † [ 4 ]
71.4
76.4
62.2
TABLE II: Cross-organ DSC (%) under five-fold evaluation. † : officially released synthetic data.
Metric
Value
Classification accuracy ↓
56.3%
Synthetic identified as real ↑
72.5%
Real identified as synthetic
15.0%
Inter-reader agreement (Fleiss’ κ )
0.18
TABLE III: Visual Turing test. Four radiologists, 40 volumes each (20 real, 20 MATS).
Histopathology image synthesis plays an important role in tissue restoration, data augmentation, and modeling of tumor microenvironments. However, existing generative methods typically address restoration and generation as separate tasks, although both share the same objective of structure-consistent tissue synthesis under varying degrees of missingness, and often rely on weak or inconsistent structural priors that limit realistic cellular organization. We propose Dual-LoRA Controllable Diffusion, a unified centroid-guided diffusion framework that jointly supports Local Structure Completion and Global Structure Synthesis within a single model. Multi-class nuclei centroids serve as lightweight and annotation-efficient spatial priors, providing biologically meaningful guidance under both partial and complete image absence. Two task-specific LoRA adapters specialize the shared backbone for local and global objectives without retraining separate diffusion models. Extensive experiments demonstrate consistent improvements over state-of-the-art GAN and diffusion baselines across restoration and synthesis tasks. For local completion, LPIPS computed within the masked region improves from 0.1797 (HARP) to 0.1524, and for global synthesis, FID improves from 225.15 (CoSys) to 76.04, indicating improved structural fidelity and realism. Our approach achieves more faithful structural recovery in masked regions and substantially improved realism and morphology consistency in full synthesis, supporting scalable pan-cancer histopathology modeling.
Controllable pathology image synthesis requires reliable regulation of spatial layout, tissue morphology, and semantic detail. However, existing text-guided diffusion models offer only coarse global control and lack the ability to enforce fine-grained structural constraints. Progress is further limited by the absence of large datasets that pair patch-level spatial layouts with detailed diagnostic descriptions, since generating such annotations for gigapixel whole-slide images is prohibitively time-consuming for human experts. To overcome these challenges, we first develop a scalable multi-agent LVLM annotation framework that integrates image description, diagnostic step extraction, and automatic quality judgment into a coordinated pipeline, and we evaluate the reliability of the system through a human verification process. This framework enables efficient construction of fine-grained and clinically aligned supervision at scale. Building on the curated data, we propose In-Context Diffusion Transformer (IC-DiT), a layout-aware generative model that incorporates spatial layouts, textual descriptions, and visual embeddings into a unified diffusion transformer. Through hierarchical multimodal attention, IC-DiT maintains global semantic coherence while accurately preserving structural and morphological details. Extensive experiments on five histopathology datasets show that IC-DiT achieves higher fidelity, stronger spatial controllability, and better diagnostic consistency than existing methods. In addition, the generated images serve as effective data augmentation resources for downstream tasks such as cancer classification and survival analysis.
Curating large labeled CT datasets is expensive and constrained by patient privacy. We present NV-Generate-BodyMask, a 3D latent diffusion model that synthesizes whole-body CT segmentation masks with precise, joint control over organ anatomy, tumor burden, and patient demographics. The model operates in the compressed latent space of a frozen mask autoencoder, generating 2563 volumetric label maps conditioned on a 19-dimensional vector via Adaptive Group Normalization and cross-attention. A size-adaptive ROI loss with spatial halo weighting and a paired tumor injection pipeline enable accurate tumor size conditioning despite the scarcity of annotated tumor cases. Trained on 8,571 masks across 26 cohorts spanning 132 labels, the model achieves Spearman ρ=0.70--0.92 for organ size, 85--100% tumor recall for lung, pancreatic, colon, and bone lesions, and strong demographic alignment (BMI ρ=0.78, sex-conditioned perfect prostate control).
Can Zhao, Pengfei Guo, Dong Yang +8
NVIDIA · National Institutes of Health · University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences