arXiv:2609.06619cs.CV2026-09

生成可控制结构与风格的伪造蛋白印迹图像,用于检验科研造假检测技术。

GAN-Blot: A Controllable Structure-Style Synthesis Benchmark for Western Blot Forensics

论文配图:GAN-Blot: A Controllable Structure-Style Synthesis Benchmark for Western Blot Forensics
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  • 将蛋白条带结构与整体视觉风格解耦,实现独立可控生成。
  • 生成46,000张高保真合成图像,专家盲测难区分真伪。
  • 为伪造检测算法提供标准测试基准,适合研究科研诚信者使用。

西方印迹(WB)图像在生物医学研究中广泛用作关键证据。近期学术不端案例显示,WB图像正被越来越多地伪造,使WB图像取证成为研究诚信的核心议题。然而,由于缺乏标准化的外观属性定义、图像数据集和可控制的生成框架,当前的取证技术发展受限。为此,我们提出一种名为GAN-Blot的可控WB图像合成框架,能生成逼真的合成图像。该框架将WB图像分解为结构分量与风格参考分量,实现对局部蛋白条带几何形态和全局视觉风格的独立控制。GAN-Blot采用双路径自编码设计,并引入多种风格对齐损失项,实现无需预设语义属性的隐式结构-风格联合控制。我们进一步构建了一个包含超过46,000张图像的合成数据集,并提出了四项可控合成评估协议。大量实验表明,GAN-Blot可在蛋白条带结构与视觉风格上生成高保真图像;在盲测条件下,生成图像可欺骗领域专家,且无法被现有检测器与筛查平台可靠识别。结果证明其作为挑战性对照样本,对验证与开发WB取证方法具有重要价值。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Western blot (WB) images are widely used as key evidence in biomedical research. Recent scientific misconduct cases reveal that WB imagery is increasingly fabricated, making WB forensics a major concern for research integrity. However, while the progress of forensic detection techniques often relies on advances in forgery-generation techniques, the development of WB forensic techniques has been hindered by the lack of standardized appearance attribute definitions, image datasets, and controllable generation frameworks for WB imagery. To address this limitation, we present a controllable WB image synthesis framework, named GAN-Blot, for generating realistic synthetic WB images. We introduce a formulation that decomposes a WB image into a structure component and a style-reference component, enabling independent control over local protein-band geometry and the global visual appearance of a synthetic WB image. GAN-Blot integrates a dual-path autoencoding design with several style-alignment loss terms to enable implicit control over structure-style synthesis without predefined semantic appearance attributes. We further contribute a synthetic WB dataset containing more than 46K images and propose four evaluation protocols for controllable WB synthesis. Extensive experiments show that GAN-Blot can generate WB images with high fidelity in both protein-band structure and visual style. Under blind inspection, the generated images can fool domain experts and are not reliably distinguished from authentic WB images by existing detectors and screening platforms. These results demonstrate their utility as challenging controlled cases for validating and developing WB forensic methods.

图像伪造科研诚信可控生成医学图像

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