Ctrl-GenAug: Controllable Generative Augmentation for Medical Sequence Classification
<|reference_start|>Ctrl-GenAug: Controllable Generative Augmentation for Medical Sequence Classification: In the medical field, the limited availability of large-scale datasets and labor-intensive annotation processes hinder the performance of deep models. Diffusion-based generative augmentation approaches present a promising solution to this issue, having been proven effective in advancing downstream medical recognition tasks. Nevertheless, existing works lack sufficient semantic and sequential steerability for challenging video/3D sequence generation, and neglect quality control of noisy synthesized samples, resulting in unreliable synthetic databases and severely limiting the performance of downstream tasks. In this work, we present Ctrl-GenAug, a novel and general generative augmentation framework that enables highly semantic- and sequential-customized sequence synthesis and suppresses incorrectly synthesized samples, to aid medical sequence classification. Specifically, we first design a multimodal conditions-guided sequence generator for controllably synthesizing diagnosis-promotive samples. A sequential augmentation module is integrated to enhance the temporal/stereoscopic coherence of generated samples. Then, we propose a noisy synthetic data filter to suppress unreliable cases at semantic and sequential levels. Extensive experiments on 3 medical datasets, using 11 networks trained on 3 paradigms, comprehensively analyze the effectiveness and generality of Ctrl-GenAug, particularly in underrepresented high-risk populations and out-domain conditions.<|reference_end|>
@article{zhou2024ctrl-genaug:,
    title={Ctrl-GenAug: Controllable Generative Augmentation for Medical Sequence
  Classification},
    author={Xinrui Zhou, Yuhao Huang, Haoran Dou, Shijing Chen, Ao Chang, Jia Liu,
  Weiran Long, Jian Zheng, Erjiao Xu, Jie Ren, Ruobing Huang, Jun Cheng, Wufeng
  Xue, Dong Ni},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.17091},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2409.17091},
    primaryClass={cs.CV cs.AI cs.LG}
}