PanoDiff-SR: Synthesizing Dental Panoramic Radiographs using Diffusion and Super-resolution

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09227v1
• Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2025 09:52:10 GMT
• Title: PanoDiff-SR: Synthesizing Dental Panoramic Radiographs using Diffusion and Super-resolution
• Authors: Sanyam Jain, Bruna Neves de Freitas, Andreas Basse-OConnor, Alexandros Iosifidis, Ruben Pauwels,
• Abstract summary: We propose a combination of diffusion-based generation (PanoDiff) and Super-Resolution (SR) for generating synthetic dental panoramic radiographs (PRs)<n>The former generates a low-resolution (LR) seed of a PR which is then processed by the SR model to yield a high-resolution (HR) PR of size 1024 X 512.<n>For SR, we propose a state-of-the-art transformer that learns local-global relationships, resulting in sharper edges and textures.
• Score: 60.970656010712275
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: There has been increasing interest in the generation of high-quality, realistic synthetic medical images in recent years. Such synthetic datasets can mitigate the scarcity of public datasets for artificial intelligence research, and can also be used for educational purposes. In this paper, we propose a combination of diffusion-based generation (PanoDiff) and Super-Resolution (SR) for generating synthetic dental panoramic radiographs (PRs). The former generates a low-resolution (LR) seed of a PR (256 X 128) which is then processed by the SR model to yield a high-resolution (HR) PR of size 1024 X 512. For SR, we propose a state-of-the-art transformer that learns local-global relationships, resulting in sharper edges and textures. Experimental results demonstrate a Frechet inception distance score of 40.69 between 7243 real and synthetic images (in HR). Inception scores were 2.55, 2.30, 2.90 and 2.98 for real HR, synthetic HR, real LR and synthetic LR images, respectively. Among a diverse group of six clinical experts, all evaluating a mixture of 100 synthetic and 100 real PRs in a time-limited observation, the average accuracy in distinguishing real from synthetic images was 68.5% (with 50% corresponding to random guessing).

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