orGAN: A Synthetic Data Augmentation Pipeline for Simultaneous Generation of Surgical Images and Ground Truth Labels
Journal:
arXiv
Published Date:
Jun 17, 2025
Abstract
Deep learning in medical imaging faces obstacles: limited data diversity,
ethical issues, high acquisition costs, and the need for precise annotations.
Bleeding detection and localization during surgery is especially challenging
due to the scarcity of high-quality datasets that reflect real surgical
scenarios. We propose orGAN, a GAN-based system for generating high-fidelity,
annotated surgical images of bleeding. By leveraging small "mimicking organ"
datasets, synthetic models that replicate tissue properties and bleeding, our
approach reduces ethical concerns and data-collection costs. orGAN builds on
StyleGAN with Relational Positional Learning to simulate bleeding events
realistically and mark bleeding coordinates. A LaMa-based inpainting module
then restores clean, pre-bleed visuals, enabling precise pixel-level
annotations. In evaluations, a balanced dataset of orGAN and mimicking-organ
images achieved 90% detection accuracy in surgical settings and up to 99%
frame-level accuracy. While our development data lack diverse organ
morphologies and contain intraoperative artifacts, orGAN markedly advances
ethical, efficient, and cost-effective creation of realistic annotated bleeding
datasets, supporting broader integration of AI in surgical practice.