In recent years, researchers have introduced various methods in many domains into medical image processing so that its effectiveness and efficiency can be improved to some extent. The applications of generative adversarial networks (GAN) in medical image processing are evolving very fast. In this paper, the state of the art in this area has been reviewed. Firstly, the basic concepts of the GAN were introduced. And then, from the perspectives of the medical image denoising, detection, segmentation, synthesis, reconstruction and classification, the applications of the GAN were summarized. Finally, prospects for further research in this area were presented.
The dramatically increasing high-resolution medical images provide a great deal of useful information for cancer diagnosis, and play an essential role in assisting radiologists by offering more objective decisions. In order to utilize the information accurately and efficiently, researchers are focusing on computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) in cancer imaging. In recent years, deep learning as a state-of-the-art machine learning technique has contributed to a great progress in this field. This review covers the reports about deep learning based CAD systems in cancer imaging. We found that deep learning has outperformed conventional machine learning techniques in both tumor segmentation and classification, and that the technique may bring about a breakthrough in CAD of cancer with great prospect in the future clinical practice.
