ART-ASyn: Anatomy-aware Realistic Texture-based Anomaly Synthesis Framework for Chest X-Rays

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.00310v1
• Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2025 04:06:58 GMT
• Title: ART-ASyn: Anatomy-aware Realistic Texture-based Anomaly Synthesis Framework for Chest X-Rays
• Authors: Qinyi Cao, Jianan Fan, Weidong Cai,
• Abstract summary: Unsupervised anomaly detection aims to identify anomalies without pixel-level annotations.<n>This paper presents a novel Anatomy-aware Realistic Texture-based Anomaly Synthesis framework (ART-ASyn) for chest X-rays.<n>ART-ASyn generates realistic and anatomically consistent lung opacity related anomalies using texture-based augmentation.
• Score: 10.059919773758562
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Unsupervised anomaly detection aims to identify anomalies without pixel-level annotations. Synthetic anomaly-based methods exhibit a unique capacity to introduce controllable irregularities with known masks, enabling explicit supervision during training. However, existing methods often produce synthetic anomalies that are visually distinct from real pathological patterns and ignore anatomical structure. This paper presents a novel Anatomy-aware Realistic Texture-based Anomaly Synthesis framework (ART-ASyn) for chest X-rays that generates realistic and anatomically consistent lung opacity related anomalies using texture-based augmentation guided by our proposed Progressive Binary Thresholding Segmentation method (PBTSeg) for lung segmentation. The generated paired samples of synthetic anomalies and their corresponding precise pixel-level anomaly mask for each normal sample enable explicit segmentation supervision. In contrast to prior work limited to one-class classification, ART-ASyn is further evaluated for zero-shot anomaly segmentation, demonstrating generalizability on an unseen dataset without target-domain annotations. Code availability is available at https://github.com/angelacao-hub/ART-ASyn.

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