Evaluating the Quality and Diversity of DCGAN-based Generatively Synthesized Diabetic Retinopathy Imagery

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05593v3
• Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 12:39:29 GMT
• Title: Evaluating the Quality and Diversity of DCGAN-based Generatively Synthesized Diabetic Retinopathy Imagery
• Authors: Cristina-Madalina Dragan, Muhammad Muneeb Saad, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, and Ruairi O'Reilly
• Abstract summary: Publicly available diabetic retinopathy (DR) datasets are imbalanced, containing limited numbers of images with DR. The imbalance can be addressed using Geneversarative Adrial Networks (GANs) to augment the datasets with synthetic images. To evaluate the quality and diversity of synthetic images, several evaluation metrics, such as Multi-Scale Structural Similarity Index (MS-SSIM), Cosine Distance (CD), and Fr't Inception Distance (FID) are used.
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• Abstract: Publicly available diabetic retinopathy (DR) datasets are imbalanced, containing limited numbers of images with DR. This imbalance contributes to overfitting when training machine learning classifiers. The impact of this imbalance is exacerbated as the severity of the DR stage increases, affecting the classifiers' diagnostic capacity. The imbalance can be addressed using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to augment the datasets with synthetic images. Generating synthetic images is advantageous if high-quality and diversified images are produced. To evaluate the quality and diversity of synthetic images, several evaluation metrics, such as Multi-Scale Structural Similarity Index (MS-SSIM), Cosine Distance (CD), and Fr\'echet Inception Distance (FID) are used. Understanding the effectiveness of each metric in evaluating the quality and diversity of GAN-based synthetic images is critical to select images for augmentation. To date, there has been limited analysis of the appropriateness of these metrics in the context of biomedical imagery. This work contributes an empirical assessment of these evaluation metrics as applied to synthetic Proliferative DR imagery generated by a Deep Convolutional GAN (DCGAN). Furthermore, the metrics' capacity to indicate the quality and diversity of synthetic images and a correlation with classifier performance is undertaken. This enables a quantitative selection of synthetic imagery and an informed augmentation strategy. Results indicate that FID is suitable for evaluating the quality, while MS-SSIM and CD are suitable for evaluating the diversity of synthetic imagery. Furthermore, the superior performance of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and EfficientNet classifiers, as indicated by the F1 and AUC scores, for the augmented datasets demonstrates the efficacy of synthetic imagery to augment the imbalanced dataset.

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