Lung CT image synthesis using GANs

José Mendes, Tânia Pereira, Francisco Silva, Julieta Frade, Joana Morgado, Cláudia Freitas, Eduardo Negrão, Beatriz Flor De Lima, Miguel Correia Da Silva, António J. Madureira, Isabel Ramos, José Luis Costa, Venceslau Hespanhol, António Cunha, Hélder P. Oliveira

Abstract: Highlights•AI models require massive datasets, but, acquiring medical datasets is challenging.•Generative models allow increasing the dataset by generating high-quality samples.•Two GAN approaches were used to synthesize images using masks and semantic annotations.•The synthetic images was evaluated by objective metrics and expert assessments.