Synthesizing Diabetic Foot Ulcer Images with Diffusion Model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.20140v1
• Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2023 03:15:30 GMT
• Title: Synthesizing Diabetic Foot Ulcer Images with Diffusion Model
• Authors: Reza Basiri, Karim Manji, Francois Harton, Alisha Poonja, Milos R. Popovic, Shehroz S. Khan
• Abstract summary: Diabetic Foot Ulcer (DFU) is a serious skin wound requiring specialized care. In recent years, generative adversarial networks and diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for generating synthetic images. This paper explores the potential of diffusion models for synthesizing DFU images and evaluates their authenticity through expert clinician assessments.
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• Abstract: Diabetic Foot Ulcer (DFU) is a serious skin wound requiring specialized care. However, real DFU datasets are limited, hindering clinical training and research activities. In recent years, generative adversarial networks and diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for generating synthetic images with remarkable realism and diversity in many applications. This paper explores the potential of diffusion models for synthesizing DFU images and evaluates their authenticity through expert clinician assessments. Additionally, evaluation metrics such as Frechet Inception Distance (FID) and Kernel Inception Distance (KID) are examined to assess the quality of the synthetic DFU images. A dataset of 2,000 DFU images is used for training the diffusion model, and the synthetic images are generated by applying diffusion processes. The results indicate that the diffusion model successfully synthesizes visually indistinguishable DFU images. 70% of the time, clinicians marked synthetic DFU images as real DFUs. However, clinicians demonstrate higher unanimous confidence in rating real images than synthetic ones. The study also reveals that FID and KID metrics do not significantly align with clinicians' assessments, suggesting alternative evaluation approaches are needed. The findings highlight the potential of diffusion models for generating synthetic DFU images and their impact on medical training programs and research in wound detection and classification.

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