Skin Lesion Synthesis with Generative Adversarial Networks
This addresses the data scarcity problem for medical imaging researchers and practitioners, but it is incremental as it applies an existing method to a new domain.
The paper tackled the lack of annotated data for skin cancer classification by using Generative Adversarial Networks to generate realistic synthetic skin lesion images, achieving visually-appealing results with clinically-meaningful information.
Skin cancer is by far the most common type of cancer. Early detection is the key to increase the chances for successful treatment significantly. Currently, Deep Neural Networks are the state-of-the-art results on automated skin cancer classification. To push the results further, we need to address the lack of annotated data, which is expensive and require much effort from specialists. To bypass this problem, we propose using Generative Adversarial Networks for generating realistic synthetic skin lesion images. To the best of our knowledge, our results are the first to show visually-appealing synthetic images that comprise clinically-meaningful information.