Evaluating and Improving the Effectiveness of Synthetic Chest X-Rays for Medical Image Analysis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.18602v1
• Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 18:47:09 GMT
• Title: Evaluating and Improving the Effectiveness of Synthetic Chest X-Rays for Medical Image Analysis
• Authors: Eva Prakash, Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu, Zhihong Chen, Eduardo Pontes Reis, Andrew Johnston, Anuj Pareek, Christian Bluethgen, Sergios Gatidis, Cameron Olsen, Akshay Chaudhari, Andrew Ng, Curtis Langlotz,
• Abstract summary: Best practices for generating synthetic chest X-ray images for downstream tasks include conditioning on single-disease labels or geometrically transformed segmentation masks. We explored methods like using a proxy model and using radiologist feedback to improve the quality of synthetic data.
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• Abstract: Purpose: To explore best-practice approaches for generating synthetic chest X-ray images and augmenting medical imaging datasets to optimize the performance of deep learning models in downstream tasks like classification and segmentation. Materials and Methods: We utilized a latent diffusion model to condition the generation of synthetic chest X-rays on text prompts and/or segmentation masks. We explored methods like using a proxy model and using radiologist feedback to improve the quality of synthetic data. These synthetic images were then generated from relevant disease information or geometrically transformed segmentation masks and added to ground truth training set images from the CheXpert, CANDID-PTX, SIIM, and RSNA Pneumonia datasets to measure improvements in classification and segmentation model performance on the test sets. F1 and Dice scores were used to evaluate classification and segmentation respectively. One-tailed t-tests with Bonferroni correction assessed the statistical significance of performance improvements with synthetic data. Results: Across all experiments, the synthetic data we generated resulted in a maximum mean classification F1 score improvement of 0.150453 (CI: 0.099108-0.201798; P=0.0031) compared to using only real data. For segmentation, the maximum Dice score improvement was 0.14575 (CI: 0.108267-0.183233; P=0.0064). Conclusion: Best practices for generating synthetic chest X-ray images for downstream tasks include conditioning on single-disease labels or geometrically transformed segmentation masks, as well as potentially using proxy modeling for fine-tuning such generations.

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