SynBT: High-quality Tumor Synthesis for Breast Tumor Segmentation by 3D Diffusion Model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03267v1
• Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 12:33:54 GMT
• Title: SynBT: High-quality Tumor Synthesis for Breast Tumor Segmentation by 3D Diffusion Model
• Authors: Hongxu Yang, Edina Timko, Levente Lippenszky, Vanda Czipczer, Lehel Ferenczi,
• Abstract summary: We propose a 3D medical diffusion model, called SynBT, to generate high-quality breast tumor in contrast-enhanced MRI images.<n>The proposed model consists of a patch-to-volume autoencoder, which is able to compress the high-resolution MRIs into compact latent space.<n>We evaluate the proposed method for a tumor segmentation task, which demonstrated the proposed high-quality tumor synthesis method can facilitate the common segmentation models.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Synthetic tumors in medical images offer controllable characteristics that facilitate the training of machine learning models, leading to an improved segmentation performance. However, the existing methods of tumor synthesis yield suboptimal performances when tumor occupies a large spatial volume, such as breast tumor segmentation in MRI with a large field-of-view (FOV), while commonly used tumor generation methods are based on small patches. In this paper, we propose a 3D medical diffusion model, called SynBT, to generate high-quality breast tumor (BT) in contrast-enhanced MRI images. The proposed model consists of a patch-to-volume autoencoder, which is able to compress the high-resolution MRIs into compact latent space, while preserving the resolution of volumes with large FOV. Using the obtained latent space feature vector, a mask-conditioned diffusion model is used to synthesize breast tumors within selected regions of breast tissue, resulting in realistic tumor appearances. We evaluated the proposed method for a tumor segmentation task, which demonstrated the proposed high-quality tumor synthesis method can facilitate the common segmentation models with performance improvement of 2-3% Dice Score on a large public dataset, and therefore provides benefits for tumor segmentation in MRI images.

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