Generation of Anonymous Chest Radiographs Using Latent Diffusion Models for Training Thoracic Abnormality Classification Systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.01323v2
• Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 15:09:31 GMT
• Title: Generation of Anonymous Chest Radiographs Using Latent Diffusion Models for Training Thoracic Abnormality Classification Systems
• Authors: Kai Packh\"auser, Lukas Folle, Florian Thamm, Andreas Maier
• Abstract summary: Biometric identifiers in chest radiographs hinder the public sharing of such data for research purposes. This work employs a latent diffusion model to synthesize an anonymous chest X-ray dataset of high-quality class-conditional images.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The availability of large-scale chest X-ray datasets is a requirement for developing well-performing deep learning-based algorithms in thoracic abnormality detection and classification. However, biometric identifiers in chest radiographs hinder the public sharing of such data for research purposes due to the risk of patient re-identification. To counteract this issue, synthetic data generation offers a solution for anonymizing medical images. This work employs a latent diffusion model to synthesize an anonymous chest X-ray dataset of high-quality class-conditional images. We propose a privacy-enhancing sampling strategy to ensure the non-transference of biometric information during the image generation process. The quality of the generated images and the feasibility of serving as exclusive training data are evaluated on a thoracic abnormality classification task. Compared to a real classifier, we achieve competitive results with a performance gap of only 3.5% in the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve.

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