Dandy-Walker malformation is a spectrum of posterior-fossa anomalies with extreme phenotypic variability. AURORA-DWM places origin biology and lifelong CSF flow on the same axis.
A non-functional preview of the AURORA-DWM surface. Composable panels, logged overrides, explainable end-to-end. Pilot sites tune this to their own workflow.
DWM-ORIGIN Origin Architecture76%DWM-LIFEFLOW Lifetime Flow64%AURORA-DWM places the posterior-fossa spectrum on one axis. Two subsystems — origin architecture and lifetime CSF flow — connect prenatal counselling to lifelong trajectory modelling.
Dandy-Walker malformation is a posterior-fossa spectrum: from incidental imaging finding to severe disability. Variance is enormous; the literature is fragmented; counselling families is hard. AURORA-DWM tries to put that whole spectrum on one explicit axis.
The two subsystems are deliberately scoped. Origin architecture captures the biology that pre-determines a large share of variance. Lifetime flow models the long-horizon CSF-and-development trajectory that the family will live with.
Most of the module's value at the bedside is communicative: confidence-banded subtype calls and trajectory projections that a family can actually understand. Patient-advocate council seats have veto rights over the patient-facing surfaces.
We are not building a product around Dandy-Walker. We are seeding an infrastructure — so that any hospital with the will to use it can.
AURORA-DWM places the posterior-fossa spectrum on one continuous axis. The current case is a point on that axis with explicit uncertainty bounds — never a discrete label drawn from a four-bin menu.
Every AURORA-DWM subsystem can be adopted alone or as part of the bundle. Each ships with its own model cards, eval results and a one-command install.
Cerebellar vermis dysgenesis and 4th-ventricle cystic biology.
Cerebellar-vermis dysgenesis and 4th-ventricle cystic biology. Subtype-aware priors for the rest of the module.
Long-horizon flow, behavior and cognitive trajectory simulator.
Long-horizon CSF flow, behavior and cognitive trajectory simulator with explicit uncertainty bands.
Inputs the module reads from your existing systems, outputs it returns to them, the protocols it speaks, and the lifecycle of one case as it moves through AURORA-DWM.
Cerebellar-vermis dysgenesis and 4th-ventricle cystic biology. Subtype-aware priors for the rest of the module.
Long-horizon CSF flow, behavior and cognitive trajectory simulator with explicit uncertainty bands.
2 drafts by the module team and pilot collaborators. Each documents one slice of the substrate — methods, evaluation protocol, lessons. Slot PDFs in as they're ready; the entries point to placeholders until then.
These are the endpoints AURORA-DWM is built to measure across pilot deployments. The targets below are pilot goals, not retrospective results.
Family-rated comprehension of diagnosis and outlook.
Diversions later judged unneeded.
On multicentre fetal MRI.
Families offered relevant studies earlier.
Every override logged with reason.
Faster onward routing for syndromic cases.
pip install to a hospital deploy in one afternoon.Available to pilot partners today on private registries. At public alpha (Q4 2026) the same images, weights and signatures ship under MIT on public registries. For the full per-product download grid, see the unified download page.
pip install aurora-dwm
aurora doctor dwm # → AURORA-DWM ✓ python ✓ models ✓ atlas # → two subsystems loaded
from aurora.dwm import subtype out = subtype(case_id="bench/dwm/case-0003") print(out.label, out.band) # → "DWV", "moderate"
AURORA-DWM is designed to run on hardware that already exists inside hospital networks. CPU-only inference is supported for the lighter subsystems; the heavier ones benefit from a recent GPU but do not require one. A single modern workstation handles routine cases under the latency target.
Federated deploys do not require open inbound ports. The runtime opens an outbound mTLS connection to the federation control plane; model updates are signed, audited and pulled. Patient data never traverses the federation. Consent metadata is a first-class object — subsystems with an explicit consent dependency refuse to run on records that lack the appropriate cohort policy.
Most pilot sites land on AURORA-DWM with an existing system in place. The recommended path is: install alongside, compare outputs on a held-out cohort for one quarter, then move read-only surfaces to AURORA, and decide on the rest. Reversibility is a design goal — nothing in the install creates lock-in.
For the full per-product, per-platform download buttons (macOS / Windows / Linux installers + pip / docker / helm / rust commands), see the unified download page. Each subsystem of AURORA-DWM is independently downloadable there.
AURORA is in private pilot today and opens to the world at public alpha in Q4 2026 under MIT. If you carry the weight of these diseases — as a clinician, scientist, builder, patient or advocate — there is a seat at the table.