PanoDiff-SR: Synthesizing Dental Panoramic Radiographs using Diffusion and Super-resolution

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Hauptverfasser: Jain, Sanyam, de Freitas, Bruna Neves, Basse-OConnor, Andreas, Iosifidis, Alexandros, Pauwels, Ruben
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author Jain, Sanyam
de Freitas, Bruna Neves
Basse-OConnor, Andreas
Iosifidis, Alexandros
Pauwels, Ruben
author_facet Jain, Sanyam
de Freitas, Bruna Neves
Basse-OConnor, Andreas
Iosifidis, Alexandros
Pauwels, Ruben
contents There has been increasing interest in the generation of high-quality, realistic synthetic medical images in recent years. Such synthetic datasets can mitigate the scarcity of public datasets for artificial intelligence research, and can also be used for educational purposes. In this paper, we propose a combination of diffusion-based generation (PanoDiff) and Super-Resolution (SR) for generating synthetic dental panoramic radiographs (PRs). The former generates a low-resolution (LR) seed of a PR (256 X 128) which is then processed by the SR model to yield a high-resolution (HR) PR of size 1024 X 512. For SR, we propose a state-of-the-art transformer that learns local-global relationships, resulting in sharper edges and textures. Experimental results demonstrate a Frechet inception distance score of 40.69 between 7243 real and synthetic images (in HR). Inception scores were 2.55, 2.30, 2.90 and 2.98 for real HR, synthetic HR, real LR and synthetic LR images, respectively. Among a diverse group of six clinical experts, all evaluating a mixture of 100 synthetic and 100 real PRs in a time-limited observation, the average accuracy in distinguishing real from synthetic images was 68.5% (with 50% corresponding to random guessing).
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spellingShingle PanoDiff-SR: Synthesizing Dental Panoramic Radiographs using Diffusion and Super-resolution
Jain, Sanyam
de Freitas, Bruna Neves
Basse-OConnor, Andreas
Iosifidis, Alexandros
Pauwels, Ruben
Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
There has been increasing interest in the generation of high-quality, realistic synthetic medical images in recent years. Such synthetic datasets can mitigate the scarcity of public datasets for artificial intelligence research, and can also be used for educational purposes. In this paper, we propose a combination of diffusion-based generation (PanoDiff) and Super-Resolution (SR) for generating synthetic dental panoramic radiographs (PRs). The former generates a low-resolution (LR) seed of a PR (256 X 128) which is then processed by the SR model to yield a high-resolution (HR) PR of size 1024 X 512. For SR, we propose a state-of-the-art transformer that learns local-global relationships, resulting in sharper edges and textures. Experimental results demonstrate a Frechet inception distance score of 40.69 between 7243 real and synthetic images (in HR). Inception scores were 2.55, 2.30, 2.90 and 2.98 for real HR, synthetic HR, real LR and synthetic LR images, respectively. Among a diverse group of six clinical experts, all evaluating a mixture of 100 synthetic and 100 real PRs in a time-limited observation, the average accuracy in distinguishing real from synthetic images was 68.5% (with 50% corresponding to random guessing).
title PanoDiff-SR: Synthesizing Dental Panoramic Radiographs using Diffusion and Super-resolution
topic Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09227