GAN-Blot: A Controllable Structure-Style Synthesis Benchmark for Western Blot Forensics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.06619v1
• Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2026 14:09:47 GMT
• Title: GAN-Blot: A Controllable Structure-Style Synthesis Benchmark for Western Blot Forensics
• Abstract summary: Recent scientific misconduct cases reveal that Western blot (WB) images are increasingly fabricated.<n>We present a controllable WB image synthesis framework, named GAN-Blot, for generating realistic synthetic WB images.<n>GAN-Blot integrates a dual-path autoencoding design with several style-alignment loss terms to enable implicit control over structure-style synthesis.
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• Abstract: Western blot (WB) images are widely used as key evidence in biomedical research. Recent scientific misconduct cases reveal that WB imagery is increasingly fabricated, making WB forensics a major concern for research integrity. However, while the progress of forensic detection techniques often relies on advances in forgery-generation techniques, the development of WB forensic techniques has been hindered by the lack of standardized appearance attribute definitions, image datasets, and controllable generation frameworks for WB imagery. To address this limitation, we present a controllable WB image synthesis framework, named GAN-Blot, for generating realistic synthetic WB images. We introduce a formulation that decomposes a WB image into a structure component and a style-reference component, enabling independent control over local protein-band geometry and the global visual appearance of a synthetic WB image. GAN-Blot integrates a dual-path autoencoding design with several style-alignment loss terms to enable implicit control over structure-style synthesis without predefined semantic appearance attributes. We further contribute a synthetic WB dataset containing more than 46K images and propose four evaluation protocols for controllable WB synthesis. Extensive experiments show that GAN-Blot can generate WB images with high fidelity in both protein-band structure and visual style. Under blind inspection, the generated images can fool domain experts and are not reliably distinguished from authentic WB images by existing detectors and screening platforms. These results demonstrate their utility as challenging controlled cases for validating and developing WB forensic methods.

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