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Accepted for/Published in: Journal of Medical Internet Research

Date Submitted: Sep 30, 2022
Open Peer Review Period: Sep 30, 2022 - Nov 25, 2022
Date Accepted: Jan 27, 2023
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The final, peer-reviewed published version of this preprint can be found here:

What Does DALL-E 2 Know About Radiology?

Adams L, Busch F, Truhn D, Makowski MR, Aerts HJ, Bressem KK

What Does DALL-E 2 Know About Radiology?

J Med Internet Res 2023;25:e43110

DOI: 10.2196/43110

PMID: 36927634

PMCID: 10131692

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What Does DALL-E 2 Know About Radiology?

  • Lisa Adams; 
  • Felix Busch; 
  • Daniel Truhn; 
  • Marcus R. Makowski; 
  • Hugo JWL Aerts; 
  • Keno K. Bressem

ABSTRACT

Generative models such as DALL-E 2 could represent a promising future tool for image generation, augmentation, and manipulation for artificial intelligence research in radiology provided that these models have sufficient medical domain knowledge. Here we show that DALL-E 2 has learned relevant representations of X-ray images with promising capabilities in terms of zero-shot text-to-image generation of new images, continuation of an image beyond its original boundaries, or removal of elements, while pathology generation or CT, MRI, and ultrasound images are still limited. The use of generative models for augmenting and generating radiological data thus seems feasible, even if further fine-tuning and adaptation of these models to the respective domain is required first.


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Please cite as:

Adams L, Busch F, Truhn D, Makowski MR, Aerts HJ, Bressem KK

What Does DALL-E 2 Know About Radiology?

J Med Internet Res 2023;25:e43110

DOI: 10.2196/43110

PMID: 36927634

PMCID: 10131692

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