GANs for medical image analysis.

Journal: Artificial intelligence in medicine
Published Date:

Abstract

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) and their extensions have carved open many exciting ways to tackle well known and challenging medical image analysis problems such as medical image de-noising, reconstruction, segmentation, data simulation, detection or classification. Furthermore, their ability to synthesize images at unprecedented levels of realism also gives hope that the chronic scarcity of labeled data in the medical field can be resolved with the help of these generative models. In this review paper, a broad overview of recent literature on GANs for medical applications is given, the shortcomings and opportunities of the proposed methods are thoroughly discussed, and potential future work is elaborated. We review the most relevant papers published until the submission date. For quick access, essential details such as the underlying method, datasets, and performance are tabulated. An interactive visualization that categorizes all papers to keep the review alive is available at http://livingreview.in.tum.de/GANs_for_Medical_Applications/.

Authors

  • Salome Kazeminia
    Department of Computer Science, TU Darmstadt, Germany. Electronic address: salome.kazeminia@gris.tu-darmstadt.de.
  • Christoph Baur
  • Arjan Kuijper
    Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany. Electronic address: arjan.kuijper@mavc.tu-darmstadt.de.
  • Bram van Ginneken
    Diagnostic Image Analysis Group, Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Fraunhofer Mevis, Bremen, Germany.
  • Nassir Navab
    Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality, TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
  • Shadi Albarqouni
  • Anirban Mukhopadhyay
    Zuse Institute Berlin, Berlin, Germany.