LeFusion: Controllable Pathology Synthesis via Lesion-Focused Diffusion Models

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Main Authors: Zhang, Hantao, Liu, Yuhe, Yang, Jiancheng, Wan, Shouhong, Wang, Xinyuan, Peng, Wei, Fua, Pascal
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author Zhang, Hantao
Liu, Yuhe
Yang, Jiancheng
Wan, Shouhong
Wang, Xinyuan
Peng, Wei
Fua, Pascal
author_facet Zhang, Hantao
Liu, Yuhe
Yang, Jiancheng
Wan, Shouhong
Wang, Xinyuan
Peng, Wei
Fua, Pascal
contents Patient data from real-world clinical practice often suffers from data scarcity and long-tail imbalances, leading to biased outcomes or algorithmic unfairness. This study addresses these challenges by generating lesion-containing image-segmentation pairs from lesion-free images. Previous efforts in medical imaging synthesis have struggled with separating lesion information from background, resulting in low-quality backgrounds and limited control over the synthetic output. Inspired by diffusion-based image inpainting, we propose LeFusion, a lesion-focused diffusion model. By redesigning the diffusion learning objectives to focus on lesion areas, we simplify the learning process and improve control over the output while preserving high-fidelity backgrounds by integrating forward-diffused background contexts into the reverse diffusion process. Additionally, we tackle two major challenges in lesion texture synthesis: 1) multi-peak and 2) multi-class lesions. We introduce two effective strategies: histogram-based texture control and multi-channel decomposition, enabling the controlled generation of high-quality lesions in difficult scenarios. Furthermore, we incorporate lesion mask diffusion, allowing control over lesion size, location, and boundary, thus increasing lesion diversity. Validated on 3D cardiac lesion MRI and lung nodule CT datasets, LeFusion-generated data significantly improves the performance of state-of-the-art segmentation models, including nnUNet and SwinUNETR. Code and model are available at https://github.com/M3DV/LeFusion.
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spellingShingle LeFusion: Controllable Pathology Synthesis via Lesion-Focused Diffusion Models
Zhang, Hantao
Liu, Yuhe
Yang, Jiancheng
Wan, Shouhong
Wang, Xinyuan
Peng, Wei
Fua, Pascal
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Patient data from real-world clinical practice often suffers from data scarcity and long-tail imbalances, leading to biased outcomes or algorithmic unfairness. This study addresses these challenges by generating lesion-containing image-segmentation pairs from lesion-free images. Previous efforts in medical imaging synthesis have struggled with separating lesion information from background, resulting in low-quality backgrounds and limited control over the synthetic output. Inspired by diffusion-based image inpainting, we propose LeFusion, a lesion-focused diffusion model. By redesigning the diffusion learning objectives to focus on lesion areas, we simplify the learning process and improve control over the output while preserving high-fidelity backgrounds by integrating forward-diffused background contexts into the reverse diffusion process. Additionally, we tackle two major challenges in lesion texture synthesis: 1) multi-peak and 2) multi-class lesions. We introduce two effective strategies: histogram-based texture control and multi-channel decomposition, enabling the controlled generation of high-quality lesions in difficult scenarios. Furthermore, we incorporate lesion mask diffusion, allowing control over lesion size, location, and boundary, thus increasing lesion diversity. Validated on 3D cardiac lesion MRI and lung nodule CT datasets, LeFusion-generated data significantly improves the performance of state-of-the-art segmentation models, including nnUNet and SwinUNETR. Code and model are available at https://github.com/M3DV/LeFusion.
title LeFusion: Controllable Pathology Synthesis via Lesion-Focused Diffusion Models
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14066