We introduce TCAM-Diff, a novel 3D medical image generation model that reduces the memory requirements to encode and generate high-resolution 3D data. This model utilizes a decoder-only autoencoder method to learn triplane representation from dense volume and leverages generalization operations to prevent overfitting.

Subsequently, it uses a triplane-aware cross-attention diffusion model to learn and integrate these features effectively. Furthermore, the features generated by the diffusion model can be rapidly transformed into 3D volumes using a pre-trained decoder module.

Our experiments on three different scales of medical datasets, BrainTumour 128 x 128 x 128, Pancreas 256 x 256 x 256, and Colon 512 x 512 x 512, demonstrate outstanding results. We utilized MSE and SSIM to assess reconstruction quality and leveraged the Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network (W-GAN) critic to assess generative quality.

Comparisons with existing approaches show that our method gives better reconstruction and generation results than other encoder-decoder methods with similar-sized latent spaces.