Research Article

Reliable Breast Cancer Diagnosis with Deep Learning: DCGAN-Driven Mammogram Synthesis and Validity Assessment

Table 1

Comparison of various GAN-based Mammogram Augmentation Techniques.

References and yearDatasetNo. of samplesTechniqueKey pointsLimitation

Wu et al. [18]Optimam mammography image Database26456Traditional + contextual GANThe model performance on malignancy classification was improvedClassification of normal and malignant only
Desai et al. [19]DDSM287DCGANThe authors show that GAN is a workable choice for training such models with a data shortageThe model is evaluated with only two batch sizes
Alyafi et al. [17]OPTIMAM mammography image Database (OMI-DB)80000DCGANThe work can be extended to other similar tasksTheir work is limited to small patches of mammograms
Shen et al. [20]DDSM and local dataset collected from Nanfang Hospital, China11218GANThe model is a viable option for generating labelled breast imagesDue to the inherent complexity and variability of breast tissue structures, this type of GAN might not be able to produce various realistic images
Swiderski et al. [21]DDSM11218AGANThe novelty of the model in data augmentation as compared to other deep learning modelsModified GAN is based on autoencoder architecture, which may misclassify key features for BC diagnosis
Lee et al. [22]The local dataset was collected from the University of Pittsburgh Medical center, USA1366CGANThe system can identify patients for further screening in the early detection of MO-related cancerThey did not consider benchmark datasets
Park et al. [23]Local dataset from Asan medical center, Korea105,948StyleGAN2Their model has comparable fidelity to real mammogramsThe system was only limited to normal mammographic images