Basic GAN Models and the Application in Medical Image Field

Abstract

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown its prominent performance to the world and be exploited in many areas. For example, generating human face image, translating image between different domain, generating supplementary data for tasks which lacks training and labeled data. Specially, GANs also shows its potential in medical image analysis. It can tackle the problems in medical image analysis such as medical image translation, segmentation, reconstruction, detection and image classification. Being capable of generating images at amazing level of realisim, GANs gives the opportunity to resolve the problem that labeled data for those rare diseases cannot meet the need for medical field. In this paper, we give an overview of GANs and its application in medical image analysis. Defects and advantages of those GANs methods are also thoroughly reviewed. We also discuss its potential improvement in future. We review those most frequently methods published until now. And essential details about papers we discussed in this paper and access to that paper is attached at the endpage.