Synthetic Medical Imaging Generation with Generative Adversarial Networks For Plain Radiographs

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Main Authors: McNulty, John R., Kho, Lee, Case, Alexandria L., Fornaca, Charlie, Johnston, Drew, Slater, David, Abzug, Joshua M., Russell, Sybil A.
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Published: 2024
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author McNulty, John R.
Kho, Lee
Case, Alexandria L.
Fornaca, Charlie
Johnston, Drew
Slater, David
Abzug, Joshua M.
Russell, Sybil A.
author_facet McNulty, John R.
Kho, Lee
Case, Alexandria L.
Fornaca, Charlie
Johnston, Drew
Slater, David
Abzug, Joshua M.
Russell, Sybil A.
contents In medical imaging, access to data is commonly limited due to patient privacy restrictions and the issue that it can be difficult to acquire enough data in the case of rare diseases.[1] The purpose of this investigation was to develop a reusable open-source synthetic image generation pipeline, the GAN Image Synthesis Tool (GIST), that is easy to use as well as easy to deploy. The pipeline helps to improve and standardize AI algorithms in the digital health space by generating high quality synthetic image data that is not linked to specific patients. Its image generation capabilities include the ability to generate imaging of pathologies or injuries with low incidence rates. This improvement of digital health AI algorithms could improve diagnostic accuracy, aid in patient care, decrease medicolegal claims, and ultimately decrease the overall cost of healthcare. The pipeline builds on existing Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) algorithms, and preprocessing and evaluation steps were included for completeness. For this work, we focused on ensuring the pipeline supports radiography, with a focus on synthetic knee and elbow x-ray images. In designing the pipeline, we evaluated the performance of current GAN architectures, studying the performance on available x-ray data. We show that the pipeline is capable of generating high quality and clinically relevant images based on a lay person's evaluation and the Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) metric.
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spellingShingle Synthetic Medical Imaging Generation with Generative Adversarial Networks For Plain Radiographs
McNulty, John R.
Kho, Lee
Case, Alexandria L.
Fornaca, Charlie
Johnston, Drew
Slater, David
Abzug, Joshua M.
Russell, Sybil A.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
In medical imaging, access to data is commonly limited due to patient privacy restrictions and the issue that it can be difficult to acquire enough data in the case of rare diseases.[1] The purpose of this investigation was to develop a reusable open-source synthetic image generation pipeline, the GAN Image Synthesis Tool (GIST), that is easy to use as well as easy to deploy. The pipeline helps to improve and standardize AI algorithms in the digital health space by generating high quality synthetic image data that is not linked to specific patients. Its image generation capabilities include the ability to generate imaging of pathologies or injuries with low incidence rates. This improvement of digital health AI algorithms could improve diagnostic accuracy, aid in patient care, decrease medicolegal claims, and ultimately decrease the overall cost of healthcare. The pipeline builds on existing Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) algorithms, and preprocessing and evaluation steps were included for completeness. For this work, we focused on ensuring the pipeline supports radiography, with a focus on synthetic knee and elbow x-ray images. In designing the pipeline, we evaluated the performance of current GAN architectures, studying the performance on available x-ray data. We show that the pipeline is capable of generating high quality and clinically relevant images based on a lay person's evaluation and the Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) metric.
title Synthetic Medical Imaging Generation with Generative Adversarial Networks For Plain Radiographs
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19107