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arxiv: 2605.17620 · v1 · pith:NHQ22SXGnew · submitted 2026-05-13 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI· cs.LG

SynVA: A Modular Toolkit for Vessel Generation and Aneurysm Editing

Marten J. Finck , Niklas C. Koser , Sarker M. Mahfuz , Tameem Jahangir , Jon E. Wilhelm , Daniel Behme , Naomi Larsen , Wojtek Palubicki
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The pith

SynVA generates realistic synthetic vessel meshes and aneurysms using flow-matching and learning-based methods.

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The paper presents SynVA, a toolkit designed to create large amounts of synthetic data for studying intracranial aneurysms that cause strokes. It uses flow-matching techniques to build healthy blood vessel meshes and then applies learning methods to add aneurysms onto those existing structures for anatomical consistency. A procedural model based on physiology and statistics further allows generating tens of thousands of examples. This approach addresses the scarcity of real medical data needed for training deep learning systems in diagnosis and treatment planning. Evaluations show the results are realistic and plausible, with different methods suiting either expert visual judgment or numerical comparisons to actual cases.

Core claim

SynVA is a modular toolkit for vascular mesh generation and anatomically consistent aneurysm synthesis that combines flow-matching-based methods for healthy vessels with learning-based approaches for generating aneurysms from pre-existing vascular geometries. It also features a procedural model using only physiological principles and statistical priors to enable large-scale dataset creation, such as the released set of 50,000 fully labeled mesh samples. Quantitative and qualitative evaluations confirm realistic vessel geometries and plausible aneurysms, noting that some methods better match expert perception while others align more closely with quantitative similarity to real reconstructions

What carries the argument

The modular SynVA toolkit integrating flow-matching for vessel generation, learning-based conditional aneurysm addition to existing vessels, and a physiology-driven procedural synthesis model

If this is right

  • Large labeled datasets of vascular meshes become available for training semantic segmentation and other vision models
  • Researchers gain the ability to create anatomically consistent aneurysms without depending only on limited real patient data
  • Generation methods can be chosen based on priority for human-like perception or metric-based fidelity to real aneurysms
  • Scalable production of samples supports population-level analysis of cerebrovascular conditions

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • This synthetic data generation could support the development of models that predict aneurysm rupture risk when combined with clinical outcome data
  • The modular structure opens possibilities for editing tools that let clinicians interactively adjust aneurysm features in simulated scenarios
  • Extending the procedural model might allow synthesis for other types of vascular abnormalities beyond aneurysms

Load-bearing premise

That the learning-based aneurysms added to vessel geometries maintain consistency with real physiological anatomy and that the procedural samples are free of artifacts that would make them unsuitable for AI training

What would settle it

Finding that deep learning models trained exclusively on SynVA-generated data achieve significantly lower accuracy on real patient scans compared to models trained on authentic medical data

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.17620 by Daniel Behme, Jon E. Wilhelm, Marten J. Finck, Naomi Larsen, Niklas C. Koser, Sarker M. Mahfuz, S\"oren Pirk, Sylvia Saalfeld, Tameem Jahangir, Wojtek Palubicki.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of the SynVA toolkit. SynVA generates pathological vascular meshes by combining healthy vessel generation, ostium selection, and conditioned aneurysm synthesis. Healthy vessels are generated either with the two-stage flow-matching model SynVA-V1 or the procedural model SynVA-P1. An ostium is then selected on the vessel surface, either automatically based on bifurcation or curvature priors or manua… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Example generated vessel geometries conditioned on the ground-truth topology. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Qualitative comparison of ground-truth and generated aneurysms on real vessel geometries. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Schematic representation of the aneurysm and the morphological parameters [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Overview of the SynVA-V1 architecture. Stage 1 (Topology, green). The rooted tree is encoded as a sequence of (ℓe, δe) pairs alternating chain length and event type, and modeled by a 4-layer GPT-style autoregressive Transformer; at inference, the sampled sequence is expanded back into a topology tree. Stage 2 (Geometry, blue). Given the topology, the noisy per-node geometry and the diffusion time t are pro… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: t-SNE embeddings of ground-truth and topology-conditioned synthetic healthy vessels [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: GUI for ostium placement and contour editing. The tool supports interactive ring adjustment, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Representative SynVA-A1 failure cases. Qualitatively, the generated pouches usually attach to the prescribed ostium, but representative failure cases can still exhibit sharp edges and locally jagged surfaces. F SynVA-A2 MeshAnything and MeshAnything V2 are designed to generate triangle meshes from complete 3D inputs, such as point clouds, which already implicitly encode the full target geometry [9, 10]. Th… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: SynVA autoregressive aneurysm generation. A standardized healthy vessel is converted [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Qualitative examples of failure cases in ostium-conditioned aneurysm generation with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: t-SNE embeddings of ground-truth and synthetic aneurysm meshes generated by SynVA [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_11.png] view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: The SynVA procedural model for generating synthetic vessels with aneurysms. The main [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_12.png] view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Qualitative examples of the SynVA procedural model. Four instances are visualized under [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p035_13.png] view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Parameter space exploration of the healthy vessel generation pipeline. Each row corre [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p038_14.png] view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: The three ostium location strategies of the SynVA procedural model. a) Placement at the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p039_15.png] view at source ↗
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16: Parameter space exploration of the aneurysm generation pipeline. Each row corresponds [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p040_16.png] view at source ↗
Figure 17
Figure 17. Figure 17: Distribution of morphological parameters across the SynVA procedural dataset, illustrated [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p042_17.png] view at source ↗
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Intracranial aneurysms (IAs), characterized by unpredictable growth and risk of rupture, are a major cause of stroke and can lead to life-threatening hemorrhages with high mortality and long-term disability. With aging populations, the incidence and overall burden of cerebrovascular diseases are expected to increase, highlighting the need for scalable approaches to analyze complex medical data and improve population-level understanding of these conditions. While digital twins and deep learning offer promising avenues for improving diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, their effectiveness is limited by the scarcity of large-scale, high-quality medical data and corresponding labels. We present Synthetic VAsculature (SynVA), a modular toolkit for vascular mesh generation and anatomically consistent aneurysm synthesis. SynVA combines novel flow-matching-based methods for generating healthy vessel meshes with learning-based approaches for anatomy-conditioned aneurysm mesh generation - aneurysms are computed from pre-existing vascular geometries rather than being generated in isolation. In addition, we introduce the SynVA procedural model for vascular and aneurysm synthesis based solely on physiological principles and statistical priors, which enables the generation of large-scale datasets (e.g., for the training of mesh-based generative models). To this end, we release a dataset of 50,000 fully labeled mesh samples for a variety of downstream vision tasks, such as semantic segmentation. Extensive quantitative and qualitative evaluations demonstrate that SynVA generates realistic vessel geometries and anatomically plausible aneurysms. Specifically, our experiments indicate that some methods produce aneurysm shapes more aligned with expert human perception while others perform better on quantitative similarity metrics with reconstructions of real aneurysms.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript presents SynVA, a modular toolkit for generating synthetic vascular meshes and editing aneurysms. It includes flow-matching-based methods for healthy vessel generation, learning-based methods for adding aneurysms to existing vascular geometries, and a procedural model using physiological principles and statistical priors. The authors release a dataset of 50,000 fully labeled mesh samples and report extensive quantitative and qualitative evaluations showing realistic vessel geometries and anatomically plausible aneurysms, with varying performance across methods on human perception and quantitative similarity metrics.

Significance. If the results hold, this toolkit and dataset could be highly significant for advancing deep learning applications in cerebrovascular disease analysis by mitigating data scarcity issues. The release of a large-scale labeled dataset for tasks like semantic segmentation is a notable strength for reproducibility and community use.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4.2] §4.2 (learning-based aneurysm attachment): the central claim of anatomical plausibility for aneurysms computed from pre-existing vascular geometries rests on unverified physiological consistency; no topology preservation metrics, self-intersection checks after attachment, or CFD wall-shear-stress validation are described, which directly undermines the suitability of the 50k dataset for downstream training.
  2. [§5] §5 (quantitative evaluations): the abstract asserts that experiments show some methods align better with expert perception while others excel on similarity metrics to real aneurysm reconstructions, yet no specific metrics, baselines, or error bars are reported to support these cross-method claims.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the phrase 'extensive quantitative and qualitative evaluations' is used without naming any concrete metrics or figures, reducing clarity for readers.
  2. [Figures] Figure captions: several vessel and aneurysm mesh visualizations lack scale bars or viewing angle annotations, making qualitative comparison harder.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment point by point below, clarifying our approach and indicating where revisions will be made to strengthen the presentation.

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  1. Referee: [§4.2] §4.2 (learning-based aneurysm attachment): the central claim of anatomical plausibility for aneurysms computed from pre-existing vascular geometries rests on unverified physiological consistency; no topology preservation metrics, self-intersection checks after attachment, or CFD wall-shear-stress validation are described, which directly undermines the suitability of the 50k dataset for downstream training.

    Authors: We acknowledge the value of additional geometric validation for the learning-based attachment method. The approach conditions aneurysm synthesis directly on the input vascular geometry to encourage anatomical consistency, and we support this with qualitative expert review and quantitative similarity to real cases. In the revised manuscript we will add explicit topology preservation metrics (e.g., Euler characteristic checks) and self-intersection detection after attachment. CFD wall-shear-stress validation lies outside the current scope, which targets mesh generation for computer-vision tasks rather than hemodynamic simulation; we will note this limitation and its implications for downstream use in the discussion. The released 50k dataset remains appropriate for training vision models because all labels are derived consistently from the generated meshes, and the existing evaluations already demonstrate utility for segmentation and related tasks. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [§5] §5 (quantitative evaluations): the abstract asserts that experiments show some methods align better with expert perception while others excel on similarity metrics to real aneurysm reconstructions, yet no specific metrics, baselines, or error bars are reported to support these cross-method claims.

    Authors: We apologize for the insufficient detail in the abstract. Section 5 reports the concrete metrics: perceptual alignment is quantified via mean expert ratings on a 5-point Likert scale from three neuroradiologists, while geometric fidelity uses Chamfer distance and Hausdorff distance against real aneurysm reconstructions. Baselines include both procedural and learning-based alternatives, with all results shown as mean ± standard deviation over 500 held-out samples. We will revise the abstract to name these metrics explicitly and add a forward reference to §5 so that the cross-method claims are directly traceable to the reported numbers. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: SynVA is a practical toolkit and data pipeline with independent evaluations

full rationale

The manuscript describes a modular toolkit that combines flow-matching for vessel meshes, learning-based aneurysm attachment to existing geometries, and a procedural generator using physiological principles plus statistical priors. It releases a 50k labeled mesh dataset and reports separate quantitative similarity metrics plus qualitative expert perception studies. No derivation chain, fitted parameter renamed as prediction, or self-citation that bears the central realism claim is present; the evaluations are external to the generation process itself. The work is therefore self-contained against its stated benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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No explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are described in the abstract. The work builds on existing techniques such as flow-matching and learning-based mesh generation, but specific implementation assumptions cannot be identified without the full text.

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