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New framework synthesizes fetal heart defect images from masks

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Researchers have developed Pos4CHD, a novel framework designed to synthesize realistic medical images of fetal congenital heart defects (CHDs). This positive-free approach uses semantic masks to generate pseudo-positive samples, addressing the scarcity of real positive cases in medical datasets. Pos4CHD leverages a mask-guided generative model called FE-Gen, which ensures anatomical consistency and image-mask alignment. Experiments show that Pos4CHD significantly improves performance in zero-shot classification, lesion detection, and anatomy segmentation tasks compared to existing methods. AI

IMPACT This framework could improve diagnostic accuracy for rare fetal conditions by overcoming data scarcity in medical imaging.

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New framework synthesizes fetal heart defect images from masks

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Wenjie Xuan, Yapeng Li, Hang Su, Chen Cheng, Juhua Liu, Sheng Zhao, Ziming Huang, Bo Du ·

    Pos4CHD: A Positive-Free Mask-Guided Counterfactual Synthesis Framework for Fetal Congenital Heart Defect Analysis

    arXiv:2610.31139v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The scarcity of positive cases remains a major bottleneck in developing automated diagnostic systems for fetal Congenital Heart Defects~(CHDs), particularly for rare subtypes. Although normal cases are accessible with effort, positi…

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