TumorGen: Boundary-Aware Tumor-Mask Synthesis with Rectified Flow Matching

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24687v1
• Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 15:11:25 GMT
• Title: TumorGen: Boundary-Aware Tumor-Mask Synthesis with Rectified Flow Matching
• Authors: Shengyuan Liu, Wenting Chen, Boyun Zheng, Wentao Pan, Xiang Li, Yixuan Yuan,
• Abstract summary: TumorGen is a novel Boundary-Aware Tumor-Mask Synthesis with Rectified Flow Matching for efficient 3D tumor synthesis.<n>It significantly improves computational efficiency by requiring fewer sampling steps while maintaining pathological accuracy through coarse and fine-grained spatial constraints.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Tumor data synthesis offers a promising solution to the shortage of annotated medical datasets. However, current approaches either limit tumor diversity by using predefined masks or employ computationally expensive two-stage processes with multiple denoising steps, causing computational inefficiency. Additionally, these methods typically rely on binary masks that fail to capture the gradual transitions characteristic of tumor boundaries. We present TumorGen, a novel Boundary-Aware Tumor-Mask Synthesis with Rectified Flow Matching for efficient 3D tumor synthesis with three key components: a Boundary-Aware Pseudo Mask Generation module that replaces strict binary masks with flexible bounding boxes; a Spatial-Constraint Vector Field Estimator that simultaneously synthesizes tumor latents and masks using rectified flow matching to ensure computational efficiency; and a VAE-guided mask refiner that enhances boundary realism. TumorGen significantly improves computational efficiency by requiring fewer sampling steps while maintaining pathological accuracy through coarse and fine-grained spatial constraints. Experimental results demonstrate TumorGen's superior performance over existing tumor synthesis methods in both efficiency and realism, offering a valuable contribution to AI-driven cancer diagnostics.

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