EyeDiff: text-to-image diffusion model improves rare eye disease diagnosis

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Main Authors: Chen, Ruoyu, Zhang, Weiyi, Liu, Bowen, Chen, Xiaolan, Xu, Pusheng, Liu, Shunming, He, Mingguang, Shi, Danli
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author Chen, Ruoyu
Zhang, Weiyi
Liu, Bowen
Chen, Xiaolan
Xu, Pusheng
Liu, Shunming
He, Mingguang
Shi, Danli
author_facet Chen, Ruoyu
Zhang, Weiyi
Liu, Bowen
Chen, Xiaolan
Xu, Pusheng
Liu, Shunming
He, Mingguang
Shi, Danli
contents The rising prevalence of vision-threatening retinal diseases poses a significant burden on the global healthcare systems. Deep learning (DL) offers a promising solution for automatic disease screening but demands substantial data. Collecting and labeling large volumes of ophthalmic images across various modalities encounters several real-world challenges, especially for rare diseases. Here, we introduce EyeDiff, a text-to-image model designed to generate multimodal ophthalmic images from natural language prompts and evaluate its applicability in diagnosing common and rare diseases. EyeDiff is trained on eight large-scale datasets using the advanced latent diffusion model, covering 14 ophthalmic image modalities and over 80 ocular diseases, and is adapted to ten multi-country external datasets. The generated images accurately capture essential lesional characteristics, achieving high alignment with text prompts as evaluated by objective metrics and human experts. Furthermore, integrating generated images significantly enhances the accuracy of detecting minority classes and rare eye diseases, surpassing traditional oversampling methods in addressing data imbalance. EyeDiff effectively tackles the issue of data imbalance and insufficiency typically encountered in rare diseases and addresses the challenges of collecting large-scale annotated images, offering a transformative solution to enhance the development of expert-level diseases diagnosis models in ophthalmic field.
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spellingShingle EyeDiff: text-to-image diffusion model improves rare eye disease diagnosis
Chen, Ruoyu
Zhang, Weiyi
Liu, Bowen
Chen, Xiaolan
Xu, Pusheng
Liu, Shunming
He, Mingguang
Shi, Danli
Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The rising prevalence of vision-threatening retinal diseases poses a significant burden on the global healthcare systems. Deep learning (DL) offers a promising solution for automatic disease screening but demands substantial data. Collecting and labeling large volumes of ophthalmic images across various modalities encounters several real-world challenges, especially for rare diseases. Here, we introduce EyeDiff, a text-to-image model designed to generate multimodal ophthalmic images from natural language prompts and evaluate its applicability in diagnosing common and rare diseases. EyeDiff is trained on eight large-scale datasets using the advanced latent diffusion model, covering 14 ophthalmic image modalities and over 80 ocular diseases, and is adapted to ten multi-country external datasets. The generated images accurately capture essential lesional characteristics, achieving high alignment with text prompts as evaluated by objective metrics and human experts. Furthermore, integrating generated images significantly enhances the accuracy of detecting minority classes and rare eye diseases, surpassing traditional oversampling methods in addressing data imbalance. EyeDiff effectively tackles the issue of data imbalance and insufficiency typically encountered in rare diseases and addresses the challenges of collecting large-scale annotated images, offering a transformative solution to enhance the development of expert-level diseases diagnosis models in ophthalmic field.
title EyeDiff: text-to-image diffusion model improves rare eye disease diagnosis
topic Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10004