MediAug: Exploring Visual Augmentation in Medical Imaging

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Main Authors: Qi, Xuyin, Zhang, Zeyu, Gang, Canxuan, Zhang, Hao, Zhang, Lei, Zhang, Zhiwei, Zhao, Yang
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author Qi, Xuyin
Zhang, Zeyu
Gang, Canxuan
Zhang, Hao
Zhang, Lei
Zhang, Zhiwei
Zhao, Yang
author_facet Qi, Xuyin
Zhang, Zeyu
Gang, Canxuan
Zhang, Hao
Zhang, Lei
Zhang, Zhiwei
Zhao, Yang
contents Data augmentation is essential in medical imaging for improving classification accuracy, lesion detection, and organ segmentation under limited data conditions. However, two significant challenges remain. First, a pronounced domain gap between natural photographs and medical images can distort critical disease features. Second, augmentation studies in medical imaging are fragmented and limited to single tasks or architectures, leaving the benefits of advanced mix-based strategies unclear. To address these challenges, we propose a unified evaluation framework with six mix-based augmentation methods integrated with both convolutional and transformer backbones on brain tumour MRI and eye disease fundus datasets. Our contributions are threefold. (1) We introduce MediAug, a comprehensive and reproducible benchmark for advanced data augmentation in medical imaging. (2) We systematically evaluate MixUp, YOCO, CropMix, CutMix, AugMix, and SnapMix with ResNet-50 and ViT-B backbones. (3) We demonstrate through extensive experiments that MixUp yields the greatest improvement on the brain tumor classification task for ResNet-50 with 79.19% accuracy and SnapMix yields the greatest improvement for ViT-B with 99.44% accuracy, and that YOCO yields the greatest improvement on the eye disease classification task for ResNet-50 with 91.60% accuracy and CutMix yields the greatest improvement for ViT-B with 97.94% accuracy. Code will be available at https://github.com/AIGeeksGroup/MediAug.
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spellingShingle MediAug: Exploring Visual Augmentation in Medical Imaging
Qi, Xuyin
Zhang, Zeyu
Gang, Canxuan
Zhang, Hao
Zhang, Lei
Zhang, Zhiwei
Zhao, Yang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Data augmentation is essential in medical imaging for improving classification accuracy, lesion detection, and organ segmentation under limited data conditions. However, two significant challenges remain. First, a pronounced domain gap between natural photographs and medical images can distort critical disease features. Second, augmentation studies in medical imaging are fragmented and limited to single tasks or architectures, leaving the benefits of advanced mix-based strategies unclear. To address these challenges, we propose a unified evaluation framework with six mix-based augmentation methods integrated with both convolutional and transformer backbones on brain tumour MRI and eye disease fundus datasets. Our contributions are threefold. (1) We introduce MediAug, a comprehensive and reproducible benchmark for advanced data augmentation in medical imaging. (2) We systematically evaluate MixUp, YOCO, CropMix, CutMix, AugMix, and SnapMix with ResNet-50 and ViT-B backbones. (3) We demonstrate through extensive experiments that MixUp yields the greatest improvement on the brain tumor classification task for ResNet-50 with 79.19% accuracy and SnapMix yields the greatest improvement for ViT-B with 99.44% accuracy, and that YOCO yields the greatest improvement on the eye disease classification task for ResNet-50 with 91.60% accuracy and CutMix yields the greatest improvement for ViT-B with 97.94% accuracy. Code will be available at https://github.com/AIGeeksGroup/MediAug.
title MediAug: Exploring Visual Augmentation in Medical Imaging
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18983