Focus on Content not Noise: Improving Image Generation for Nuclei Segmentation by Suppressing Steganography in CycleGAN

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01769v1
• Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2023 13:58:37 GMT
• Title: Focus on Content not Noise: Improving Image Generation for Nuclei Segmentation by Suppressing Steganography in CycleGAN
• Authors: Jonas Utz, Tobias Weise, Maja Schlereth, Fabian Wagner, Mareike Thies, Mingxuan Gu, Stefan Uderhardt, Katharina Breininger
• Abstract summary: We propose to remove the hidden shortcut information, called steganography, from generated images by employing a low pass filtering based on the DCT. We achieve an improvement of 5.4 percentage points in the F1-score compared to a vanilla CycleGAN.
• Score: 1.564260789348333
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Annotating nuclei in microscopy images for the training of neural networks is a laborious task that requires expert knowledge and suffers from inter- and intra-rater variability, especially in fluorescence microscopy. Generative networks such as CycleGAN can inverse the process and generate synthetic microscopy images for a given mask, thereby building a synthetic dataset. However, past works report content inconsistencies between the mask and generated image, partially due to CycleGAN minimizing its loss by hiding shortcut information for the image reconstruction in high frequencies rather than encoding the desired image content and learning the target task. In this work, we propose to remove the hidden shortcut information, called steganography, from generated images by employing a low pass filtering based on the DCT. We show that this increases coherence between generated images and cycled masks and evaluate synthetic datasets on a downstream nuclei segmentation task. Here we achieve an improvement of 5.4 percentage points in the F1-score compared to a vanilla CycleGAN. Integrating advanced regularization techniques into the CycleGAN architecture may help mitigate steganography-related issues and produce more accurate synthetic datasets for nuclei segmentation.

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