Intelligent image synthesis to attack a segmentation CNN using adversarial learning
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Deep learning approaches based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been successful in solving a number of problems in medical imaging, including image segmentation. In recent years, it has been shown that CNNs are vulnerable to attacks in which the input image is perturbed by relatively small amounts of noise so that the CNN is no longer able to perform a segmentation of the perturbed image with sufficient accuracy. Therefore, exploring methods on how to attack CNN-based models as well as how to defend models against attacks have become a popular topic as this also provides insights into the performance and generalization abilities of CNNs. However, most of the existing work assumes unrealistic attack models, i.e. the resulting attacks were specified in advance. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for generating adversarial examples to attack CNN-based segmentation models for medical images. Our approach has three key features: (1) The generated adversarial examples exhibit anatomical variations (in form of deformations) as well as appearance perturbations; (2) The adversarial examples attack segmentation models so that the Dice scores decrease by a pre-specified amount; (3) The attack is not required to be specified beforehand. We have evaluated our approach on CNN-based approaches for the multi-organ segmentation problem in 2D CT images. We show that the proposed approach can be used to attack different CNN-based segmentation models.
Date Issued
2019-10-08
Date Acceptance
2019-09-24
Citation
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2019, 11827 (1909.11167v1)
ISBN
978-3-030-32777-4
ISSN
0302-9743
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Journal / Book Title
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume
11827
Issue
1909.11167v1
Copyright Statement
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. The final publication is available at Springer via https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-32778-1_10
Sponsor
National Institute for Health Research
Grant Number
ll-LA-0814-20007
Source
Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging. SASHIMI 2019
Subjects
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2019-10-13
Finish Date
2019-10-18
Coverage Spatial
Shenzhen, China