Abstract
AbstractThe success of training computer-vision models heavily relies on the support of large-scale, real-world images with annotations. Yet such an annotation-ready dataset is difficult to curate in pathology due to the privacy protection and excessive annotation burden. To aid in computational pathology, synthetic data generation, curation, and annotation present a cost-effective means to quickly enable data diversity that is required to boost model performance at different stages. In this study, we introduce a large-scale synthetic pathological image dataset paired with the annotation for nuclei semantic segmentation, termed as Synthetic Nuclei and annOtation Wizard (SNOW). The proposed SNOW is developed via a standardized workflow by applying the off-the-shelf image generator and nuclei annotator. The dataset contains overall 20k image tiles and 1,448,522 annotated nuclei with the CC-BY license. We show that SNOW can be used in both supervised and semi-supervised training scenarios. Extensive results suggest that synthetic-data-trained models are competitive under a variety of model training settings, expanding the scope of better using synthetic images for enhancing downstream data-driven clinical tasks.
Funder
National Science Foundation
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Library and Information Sciences,Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty,Computer Science Applications,Education,Information Systems,Statistics and Probability
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