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Evaluation of Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks for Data Augmentation of Chest X-ray Images

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  • Sagar Kora Venu

    (Department of Analytics, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, Harrisburg, PA 17101, USA)

  • Sridhar Ravula

    (Department of Analytics, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, Harrisburg, PA 17101, USA)

Abstract

Medical image datasets are usually imbalanced due to the high costs of obtaining the data and time-consuming annotations. Training a deep neural network model on such datasets to accurately classify the medical condition does not yield the desired results as they often over-fit the majority class samples’ data. Data augmentation is often performed on the training data to address the issue by position augmentation techniques such as scaling, cropping, flipping, padding, rotation, translation, affine transformation, and color augmentation techniques such as brightness, contrast, saturation, and hue to increase the dataset sizes. Radiologists generally use chest X-rays for the diagnosis of pneumonia. Due to patient privacy concerns, access to such data is often protected. In this study, we performed data augmentation on the Chest X-ray dataset to generate artificial chest X-ray images of the under-represented class through generative modeling techniques such as the Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network (DCGAN). With just 1341 chest X-ray images labeled as Normal, artificial samples were created by retaining similar characteristics to the original data with this technique. Evaluating the model resulted in a Fréchet Distance of Inception (FID) score of 1.289. We further show the superior performance of a CNN classifier trained on the DCGAN augmented dataset.

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  • Sagar Kora Venu & Sridhar Ravula, 2020. "Evaluation of Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks for Data Augmentation of Chest X-ray Images," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 13(1), pages 1-13, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jftint:v:13:y:2020:i:1:p:8-:d:472839
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