arXiv:2603.13497cs.CVcs.LG2026-03中稿 · MDPI bioengineerin…

用GAN生成逼真黑色素瘤图像,缓解数据不足问题。

Synthetic Melanoma Image Generation and Evaluation Using Generative Adversarial Networks

  • 用StyleGAN2等四种GAN架构生成高分辨率黑色素瘤图像。
  • 生成图像使分类模型AUC从0.925提升至0.945,且医生难区分真假。
  • 适合医学图像合成、数据增强及皮肤癌AI研究者使用。

黑色素瘤是最致命的皮肤癌类型,早期检测对改善患者预后至关重要。尽管结合皮肤镜与深度学习已推动自动化皮肤病变分析,但受限于大规模标注数据集稀缺和类别严重不平衡(黑色素瘤图像显著不足)。为应对挑战,本文首次系统性对比四种GAN架构(DCGAN、StyleGAN2及两个StyleGAN3变体T/R)在高分辨率黑色素瘤图像生成上的表现。所有模型在两个专家标注基准(ISIC 2018与ISIC 2020)上统一预处理与超参数优化,并重点调整R1正则化。通过多维度评估:分布级指标(FID)、样本级代表性(FMD)、定性皮肤镜检查、冻结EfficientNet分类器下游识别,以及两位认证皮肤科医生独立评估。结果表明,StyleGAN2在量化性能与视觉质量间取得最佳平衡,分别在ISIC 2018与ISIC 2020上达到FID 24.8与7.96(gamma=0.8)。冻结分类器识别出83%的生成图像为黑色素瘤;医生仅以66.5%准确率区分真假图像(随机水平为50%),组间一致性低(kappa=0.17)。在控制增广实验中,加入合成图像使真实测试集上黑色素瘤检测AUC从0.925提升至0.945。结果证明,StyleGAN2生成图像保留了诊断相关特征,能有效缓解黑色素瘤机器学习中的类别不平衡问题。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Melanoma is the most lethal form of skin cancer, and early detection is critical for improving patient outcomes. Although dermoscopy combined with deep learning has advanced automated skin-lesion analysis, progress is hindered by limited access to large, well-annotated datasets and by severe class imbalance, where melanoma images are substantially underrepresented. To address these challenges, we present the first systematic benchmarking study comparing four GAN architectures-DCGAN, StyleGAN2, and two StyleGAN3 variants (T/R)-for high-resolution melanoma-specific synthesis. We train and optimize all models on two expert-annotated benchmarks (ISIC 2018 and ISIC 2020) under unified preprocessing and hyperparameter exploration, with particular attention to R1 regularization tuning. Image quality is assessed through a multi-faceted protocol combining distribution-level metrics (FID), sample-level representativeness (FMD), qualitative dermoscopic inspection, downstream classification with a frozen EfficientNet-based melanoma detector, and independent evaluation by two board-certified dermatologists. StyleGAN2 achieves the best balance of quantitative performance and perceptual quality, attaining FID scores of 24.8 (ISIC 2018) and 7.96 (ISIC 2020) at gamma=0.8. The frozen classifier recognizes 83% of StyleGAN2-generated images as melanoma, while dermatologists distinguish synthetic from real images at only 66.5% accuracy (chance = 50%), with low inter-rater agreement (kappa = 0.17). In a controlled augmentation experiment, adding synthetic melanoma images to address class imbalance improved melanoma detection AUC from 0.925 to 0.945 on a held-out real-image test set. These findings demonstrate that StyleGAN2-generated melanoma images preserve diagnostically relevant features and can provide a measurable benefit for mitigating class imbalance in melanoma-focused machine learning pipelines.

图像生成医学影像数据增强GAN

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