Summary of Guided Synthesis Of Labeled Brain Mri Data Using Latent Diffusion Models For Segmentation Of Enlarged Ventricles, by Tim Ruschke et al.
Guided Synthesis of Labeled Brain MRI Data Using Latent Diffusion Models for Segmentation of Enlarged Ventricles
by Tim Ruschke, Jonathan Frederik Carlsen, Adam Espe Hansen, Ulrich Lindberg, Amalie Monberg Hindsholm, Martin Norgaard, Claes Nøhr Ladefoged
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The study proposes a novel approach to improve ventricular segmentation in brain MRI images by leveraging synthetic data generated using latent diffusion models (LDMs). The authors train two LDMs: a mask generator and an SPADE image generator, which are then conditioned on 3D brain masks. This enables the control of ventricular volume distribution in the generated synthetic images. The performance of the synthetic data is tested using three nnU-Net segmentation models trained on real, augmented, and entirely synthetic datasets. The results show that the model trained on synthetic data outperforms the state-of-the-art SynthSeg model in terms of mean absolute error (MAE) and Dice score. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The study creates fake brain MRI images to help doctors better identify enlarged ventricles. It uses special computer models called latent diffusion models to generate these fake images, which are then used to train computers to segment the ventricles. The results show that this method is more accurate than existing methods and can even outperform a state-of-the-art model in certain cases. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion » Mae » Mask » Synthetic data
