Medical diffusion on a budget: Textual Inversion for medical image generation

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Autores principales: de Wilde, Bram, Saha, Anindo, de Rooij, Maarten, Huisman, Henkjan, Litjens, Geert
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author de Wilde, Bram
Saha, Anindo
de Rooij, Maarten
Huisman, Henkjan
Litjens, Geert
author_facet de Wilde, Bram
Saha, Anindo
de Rooij, Maarten
Huisman, Henkjan
Litjens, Geert
contents Diffusion models for text-to-image generation, known for their efficiency, accessibility, and quality, have gained popularity. While inference with these systems on consumer-grade GPUs is increasingly feasible, training from scratch requires large captioned datasets and significant computational resources. In medical image generation, the limited availability of large, publicly accessible datasets with text reports poses challenges due to legal and ethical concerns. This work shows that adapting pre-trained Stable Diffusion models to medical imaging modalities is achievable by training text embeddings using Textual Inversion. In this study, we experimented with small medical datasets (100 samples each from three modalities) and trained within hours to generate diagnostically accurate images, as judged by an expert radiologist. Experiments with Textual Inversion training and inference parameters reveal the necessity of larger embeddings and more examples in the medical domain. Classification experiments show an increase in diagnostic accuracy (AUC) for detecting prostate cancer on MRI, from 0.78 to 0.80. Further experiments demonstrate embedding flexibility through disease interpolation, combining pathologies, and inpainting for precise disease appearance control. The trained embeddings are compact (less than 1 MB), enabling easy data sharing with reduced privacy concerns.
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spellingShingle Medical diffusion on a budget: Textual Inversion for medical image generation
de Wilde, Bram
Saha, Anindo
de Rooij, Maarten
Huisman, Henkjan
Litjens, Geert
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
Diffusion models for text-to-image generation, known for their efficiency, accessibility, and quality, have gained popularity. While inference with these systems on consumer-grade GPUs is increasingly feasible, training from scratch requires large captioned datasets and significant computational resources. In medical image generation, the limited availability of large, publicly accessible datasets with text reports poses challenges due to legal and ethical concerns. This work shows that adapting pre-trained Stable Diffusion models to medical imaging modalities is achievable by training text embeddings using Textual Inversion. In this study, we experimented with small medical datasets (100 samples each from three modalities) and trained within hours to generate diagnostically accurate images, as judged by an expert radiologist. Experiments with Textual Inversion training and inference parameters reveal the necessity of larger embeddings and more examples in the medical domain. Classification experiments show an increase in diagnostic accuracy (AUC) for detecting prostate cancer on MRI, from 0.78 to 0.80. Further experiments demonstrate embedding flexibility through disease interpolation, combining pathologies, and inpainting for precise disease appearance control. The trained embeddings are compact (less than 1 MB), enabling easy data sharing with reduced privacy concerns.
title Medical diffusion on a budget: Textual Inversion for medical image generation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13430