Retinal image synthesis from multiple-landmarks input with generative adversarial networks.

Journal: Biomedical engineering online
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Medical datasets, especially medical images, are often imbalanced due to the different incidences of various diseases. To address this problem, many methods have been proposed to synthesize medical images using generative adversarial networks (GANs) to enlarge training datasets for facilitating medical image analysis. For instance, conventional methods such as image-to-image translation techniques are used to synthesize fundus images with their respective vessel trees in the field of fundus image.

Authors

  • Zekuan Yu
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
  • Qing Xiang
    RNAi Core, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA.
  • Jiahao Meng
    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, China.
  • Caixia Kou
    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, China.
  • Qiushi Ren
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China.
  • Yanye Lu
    Pattern Recognition Lab, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Martensstr. 3, 91058, Erlangen, Germany. yanye.lu@fau.de.