Unconditional Latent Diffusion Models Memorize Patient Imaging Data: Implications for Openly Sharing Synthetic Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01054v3
• Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 21:53:44 GMT
• Title: Unconditional Latent Diffusion Models Memorize Patient Imaging Data: Implications for Openly Sharing Synthetic Data
• Authors: Salman Ul Hassan Dar, Marvin Seyfarth, Isabelle Ayx, Theano Papavassiliu, Stefan O. Schoenberg, Robert Malte Siepmann, Fabian Christopher Laqua, Jannik Kahmann, Norbert Frey, Bettina Baeßler, Sebastian Foersch, Daniel Truhn, Jakob Nikolas Kather, Sandy Engelhardt,
• Abstract summary: We train latent diffusion models on CT, MR, and X-ray datasets for synthetic data generation. We then detect the amount of training data memorized utilizing our novel self-supervised copy detection approach. Our findings show a surprisingly high degree of patient data memorization across all datasets.
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• Abstract: AI models present a wide range of applications in the field of medicine. However, achieving optimal performance requires access to extensive healthcare data, which is often not readily available. Furthermore, the imperative to preserve patient privacy restricts patient data sharing with third parties and even within institutes. Recently, generative AI models have been gaining traction for facilitating open-data sharing by proposing synthetic data as surrogates of real patient data. Despite the promise, some of these models are susceptible to patient data memorization, where models generate patient data copies instead of novel synthetic samples. Considering the importance of the problem, surprisingly it has received relatively little attention in the medical imaging community. To this end, we assess memorization in unconditional latent diffusion models. We train latent diffusion models on CT, MR, and X-ray datasets for synthetic data generation. We then detect the amount of training data memorized utilizing our novel self-supervised copy detection approach and further investigate various factors that can influence memorization. Our findings show a surprisingly high degree of patient data memorization across all datasets. Comparison with non-diffusion generative models, such as autoencoders and generative adversarial networks, indicates that while latent diffusion models are more susceptible to memorization, overall they outperform non-diffusion models in synthesis quality. Further analyses reveal that using augmentation strategies, small architecture, and increasing dataset can reduce memorization while over-training the models can enhance it. Collectively, our results emphasize the importance of carefully training generative models on private medical imaging datasets, and examining the synthetic data to ensure patient privacy before sharing it for medical research and applications.

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