M3Dsynth: A dataset of medical 3D images with AI-generated local manipulations
Giada Zingarini, Davide Cozzolino, Riccardo Corvi, Giovanni, Poggi, Luisa Verdoliva

TL;DR
This paper introduces M3Dsynth, a large dataset of manipulated 3D medical images created with AI techniques, to improve detection of content manipulation in medical diagnostics.
Contribution
The paper presents a novel large dataset of AI-manipulated medical images and demonstrates its effectiveness for training models to detect and localize manipulations.
Findings
Manipulated images can fool diagnostic tools
State-of-the-art detectors trained on M3Dsynth generalize well
Dataset and code are publicly available
Abstract
The ability to detect manipulated visual content is becoming increasingly important in many application fields, given the rapid advances in image synthesis methods. Of particular concern is the possibility of modifying the content of medical images, altering the resulting diagnoses. Despite its relevance, this issue has received limited attention from the research community. One reason is the lack of large and curated datasets to use for development and benchmarking purposes. Here, we investigate this issue and propose M3Dsynth, a large dataset of manipulated Computed Tomography (CT) lung images. We create manipulated images by injecting or removing lung cancer nodules in real CT scans, using three different methods based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) or Diffusion Models (DM), for a total of 8,577 manipulated samples. Experiments show that these images easily fool automated…
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Taxonomy
TopicsCOVID-19 diagnosis using AI · AI in cancer detection · Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
MethodsDiffusion
