Gan Data Augmentation For Improved Automated Atherosclerosis Screening From Coronary Ct Angiography

Résumé: Atherosclerosis is a chronic medical condition that can result in coronary artery disease,strokes, or even heart attacks. early detection can result in timely interventions and save lives.OBJECTIVES: In this work, a fully automatic transfer learning-based model was proposed for Atherosclerosisdetection in coronary CT angiography (CCTA). The model’s performance was improved by generating trainingdata using a Generative Adversarial Network.METHODS: A first experiment was established on the original dataset with a Resnet network, reaching 95.2%accuracy, 60.8% sensitivity, 99.25% specificity and 90.48% PPV. A Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) wasthen used to generate a new set of images to balance the dataset, creating more positive images. Experimentswere made adding from 100 to 1000 images to the dataset.RESULTS: adding 1000 images resulted in a small drop in accuracy to 93.2%, but an improvement in overallperformance with 89.0% sensitivity, 97.37% specificity and 97.13% PPV.CONCLUSION: This paper was one of the early research projects investigating the efficiency of dataaugmentation using GANs for atherosclerosis, with results comparable to the state of the art

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