Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING
Volume 38, Issue 5, Pages 1197-1206Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2018.2881415
Keywords
Chest X-ray; convolutional neural network; generative adversarial network; image augmentation; synthesized images
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Medical datasets are often highly imbalanced with over-representation of prevalent conditions and poor representation of rare medical conditions. Due to privacy concerns, it is challenging to aggregate large datasets between health care institutions. We propose synthesizing pathology in medical images as a means to overcome these challenges. We implement a deep convolutional generative adversarial network (DCGAN) to create synthesized chest X-rays based upon a modest sized labeled dataset. We used a combination of real and synthesized images to train deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) to detect pathology across five classes of chest X-rays. The comparative study of DCNNs trained with the combination of real and synthesized images showed that these networks can outperform similar networks trained solely with real images in pathology classification. This improved performance is largely attributable to the balancing of the dataset using DCGAN synthesized images, where classes that are lacking in example images are preferentially augmented.
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