DiffKAN-Inpainting: KAN-based Diffusion model for brain tumor inpainting
Journal:
arXiv
Published Date:
Feb 24, 2025
Abstract
Brain tumors delay the standard preprocessing workflow for further
examination. Brain inpainting offers a viable, although difficult, solution for
tumor tissue processing, which is necessary to improve the precision of the
diagnosis and treatment. Most conventional U-Net-based generative models,
however, often face challenges in capturing the complex, nonlinear latent
representations inherent in brain imaging. In order to accomplish high-quality
healthy brain tissue reconstruction, this work proposes DiffKAN-Inpainting, an
innovative method that blends diffusion models with the Kolmogorov-Arnold
Networks architecture. During the denoising process, we introduce the RePaint
method and tumor information to generate images with a higher fidelity and
smoother margin. Both qualitative and quantitative results demonstrate that as
compared to the state-of-the-art methods, our proposed DiffKAN-Inpainting
inpaints more detailed and realistic reconstructions on the BraTS dataset. The
knowledge gained from ablation study provide insights for future research to
balance performance with computing cost.
