# Evaluation of Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks for data augmentation of chest X-ray images

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01181 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2009.01181/

## Key facts

- Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 2 Sep 2020.

## Built on by (most cited first, 5 of 5)

- [A Survey on Training Challenges in Generative Adversarial Networks for Biomedical Image Analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.07646/) (2022)
- [Assessing the ability of generative adversarial networks to learn canonical medical image statistics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.12007/) (2022)
- [Augmenting Medical Imaging: A Comprehensive Catalogue of 65 Techniques for Enhanced Data Analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.01178/) (2023)
- [Addressing the Intra-class Mode Collapse Problem using Adaptive Input Image Normalization in GAN-based X-ray Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.10324/) (2022)
- [TRCGL-Net: A Long-Tailed Multi-Label Chest X-Ray Classification Framework with Generative Data Augmentation and Label Co-Occurrence Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.00975/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Medical image datasets are usually imbalanced, due to the high costs of obtaining the data and time-consuming annotations. Training deep neural network models on such datasets to accurately classify the medical condition does not yield desired results and often over-fits the data on majority class samples. In order to address this issue, data augmentation is often performed on training data by position augmentation techniques such as scaling, cropping, flipping, padding, rotation, translation, affine transformation, and color augmentation techniques such as brightness, contrast, saturation, and hue to increase the dataset sizes. These augmentation techniques are not guaranteed to be advantageous in domains with limited data, especially medical image data, and could lead to further overfitting. In this work, we performed data augmentation on the Chest X-rays dataset through generative modeling (deep convolutional generative adversarial network) which creates artificial instances retaining similar characteristics to the original data and evaluation of the model resulted in Fr'echet Distance of Inception (FID) score of 1.289.