Author:
Xia Tian,Sanchez Pedro,Qin Chen,Tsaftaris Sotirios A.
Abstract
Due to the limited availability of medical data, deep learning approaches for medical image analysis tend to generalise poorly to unseen data. Augmenting data during training with random transformations has been shown to help and became a ubiquitous technique for training neural networks. Here, we propose a novel adversarial counterfactual augmentation scheme that aims at finding the most effective synthesised images to improve downstream tasks, given a pre-trained generative model. Specifically, we construct an adversarial game where we update the input conditional factor of the generator and the downstream classifier with gradient backpropagation alternatively and iteratively. This can be viewed as finding the ‘weakness’ of the classifier and purposely forcing it to overcome its weakness via the generative model. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, we validate the method with the classification of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) as a downstream task. The pre-trained generative model synthesises brain images using age as conditional factor. Extensive experiments and ablation studies have been performed to show that the proposed approach improves classification performance and has potential to alleviate spurious correlations and catastrophic forgetting. Code: https://github.com/xiat0616/adversarial_counterfactual_augmentation
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