Summary of Medisyn: a Generalist Text-guided Latent Diffusion Model For Diverse Medical Image Synthesis, by Joseph Cho et al.
MediSyn: A Generalist Text-Guided Latent Diffusion Model For Diverse Medical Image Synthesis
by Joseph Cho, Mrudang Mathur, Cyril Zakka, Dhamanpreet Kaur, Matthew Leipzig, Alex Dalal, Aravind Krishnan, Eubee Koo, Karen Wai, Cindy S. Zhao, Rohan Shad, Robyn Fong, Ross Wightman, Akshay Chaudhari, William Hiesinger
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed MediSyn model is a text-guided, latent diffusion generator that can produce synthetic medical images from six specialties and ten imaging modalities. This approach has the potential to address the limitations of existing medical image generators, which are often designed for specific specialties or imaging modalities. The generated synthetic images were validated by expert clinicians to ensure they align with their corresponding text prompts. A comparison with real images confirmed that MediSyn synthesizes novel images and can preserve patient privacy. Furthermore, classifiers trained on a combination of synthetic and real data achieved similar performance to those trained on twice the amount of real data. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary MediSyn is a new way to make fake medical pictures using text prompts. This helps solve a big problem in medicine where we don’t have enough real images because of patient privacy concerns. Existing methods for making fake medical images are usually good at one specific type, but MediSyn can do many types and specialties. Doctors looked at the fake images and said they were accurate. The fake images also helped machines learn as well as if they had twice as much real data. This could make it easier to develop new medical treatments. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion
