Synthesis of Diabetic Retina Fundus Images Using Semantic Label Generation

Joon-Ho Son, Amir Alansary, Daniel Rueckert, Bernhard Kainz, Benjamin Hou

Keywords: Image Synthesis, Segmentation, Generative Adversarial Networks, Diabetic Retinopathy

Abstract: Automatic segmentation of retina lesions have been a long standing and challenging task for learning based models, mostly due to the lack of available and accurate lesion segmentation datasets. In this paper, we propose a two-step process for generating photo-realistic fundus images conditioned on synthetic "ground truth" semantic labels, and demonstrate its potential for further downstream tasks, such as, but not limited to; automated grading of diabetic retinopathy, dataset balancing, creating image examples for trainee ophthalmologists, etc.

Paper Type: both

Primary Subject Area: Image Synthesis

Secondary Subject Area: Segmentation

Paper Status: original work, not submitted yet

Source Code Url: https://github.com/sonjoonho/semantic-retina-generation

Data Set Url: IDRiD https://ieee-dataport.org/open-access/indian-diabetic-retinopathy-image-dataset-idrid, FGADR https://csyizhou.github.io/FGADR/, Synthetic https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19czqBOKrJTinVt_Zz8mmdb-r2epvl4K6?usp=sharing

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TL;DR: We use synthetic retina images to improve lesion segmentation performance.