Data Augmentation from Sketch

State of the art machine learning methods need huge amounts of data with unambiguous annotations for their training. In the context of medical imaging this is, in general, a very difficult task due to limited access to clinical data, the time required for manual annotations and variability across ex...

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Authors: Gil, Debora|||0000-0002-2770-4767, Esteban Lansaque, Antonio, Stefaniga, Sebastian, Gaianu, Mihail, Sánchez Ramos, Carles|||0000-0003-3435-9882
Format: book part
Publication Date:2019
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repository:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:257862
Online Access:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/257862
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1007/978-3-030-32689-0_16
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Data augmentation
CycleGANs
Multi-objective optimization
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Summary:State of the art machine learning methods need huge amounts of data with unambiguous annotations for their training. In the context of medical imaging this is, in general, a very difficult task due to limited access to clinical data, the time required for manual annotations and variability across experts. Simulated data could serve for data augmentation provided that its appearance was comparable to the actual appearance of intra-operative acquisitions. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a powerful tool for artistic style transfer, but lack a criteria for selecting epochs ensuring also preservation of intra-operative content. We propose a multi-objective optimization strategy for a selection of cycleGAN epochs ensuring a mapping between virtual images and the intra-operative domain preserving anatomical content. Our approach has been applied to simulate intra-operative bronchoscopic videos and chest CT scans from virtual sketches generated using simple graphical primitives.