International Business Machines Corporation
TRAINING SET ENRICHMENT WITH INSIGNIFICANTLY-ABNORMAL MEDICAL IMAGES

Abstract:

A method including: automatically detecting, using at least one machine learning algorithm, one or more abnormalities depicted in a medical image of a patient; automatically determining whether the one or more abnormalities have remained temporally and unchanged, based on an older medical image of the patient; and upon determining that the one or more abnormalities have remained temporally and spatially unchanged: automatically inpainting the one or more abnormalities in the medical image, and automatically enrich a new training set with the inpainted medical image.