MRGen: Segmentation Data Engine For Underrepresented MRI Modalities

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04106v2
• Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 11:59:46 GMT
• Title: MRGen: Segmentation Data Engine For Underrepresented MRI Modalities
• Authors: Haoning Wu, Ziheng Zhao, Ya Zhang, Yanfeng Wang, Weidi Xie,
• Abstract summary: Training medical image segmentation models for rare yet clinically significant imaging modalities is challenging due to the scarcity of annotated data.<n>This paper investigates leveraging generative models to synthesize training data, to train segmentation models for underrepresented modalities.
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• Abstract: Training medical image segmentation models for rare yet clinically significant imaging modalities is challenging due to the scarcity of annotated data, and manual mask annotations can be costly and labor-intensive to acquire. This paper investigates leveraging generative models to synthesize training data, to train segmentation models for underrepresented modalities, particularly on annotation-scarce MRI. Concretely, our contributions are threefold: (i) we introduce MRGen-DB, a large-scale radiology image-text dataset comprising extensive samples with rich metadata, including modality labels, attributes, regions, and organs information, with a subset having pixelwise mask annotations; (ii) we present MRGen, a diffusion-based data engine for controllable medical image synthesis, conditioned on text prompts and segmentation masks. MRGen can generate realistic images for diverse MRI modalities lacking mask annotations, facilitating segmentation training in low-source domains; (iii) extensive experiments across multiple modalities demonstrate that MRGen significantly improves segmentation performance on unannotated modalities by providing high-quality synthetic data. We believe that our method bridges a critical gap in medical image analysis, extending segmentation capabilities to scenarios that are challenging to acquire manual annotations.

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