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FairGen: preference-aligned diffusion for demographically equitable medical image synthesis.

Zhimin Li¹, Ruichen Zhang², Zhen Tan³

¹Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

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FairGen, a new AI framework, creates balanced medical images to reduce diagnostic bias in AI models. This approach enhances fairness and accuracy across diverse demographic groups in medical imaging analysis.

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Area of Science:

Medical Imaging
Artificial Intelligence
Healthcare Equity

Background:

Demographic imbalances in clinical image data can lead to AI diagnostic bias.
Diseases manifest differently across demographics, creating rare presentations in AI training data.
AI models trained on imbalanced data risk perpetuating healthcare disparities.

Purpose of the Study:

Introduce FairGen, a fairness-aware diffusion framework for synthesizing demographically balanced medical images.
Improve subgroup coverage and downstream classification accuracy in AI models.
Mitigate diagnostic bias and enhance healthcare equity in medical AI.

Main Methods:

Developed FairGen, a diffusion framework embedding physician preferences for balanced image synthesis.
Preserved pathology-relevant visual features during image generation.
Applied FairGen to dermatology, radiology, and neuroimaging datasets.

Main Results:

Achieved significant fairness improvements: 95.9% for skin images, 80.0% for chest radiography, and 35.2% for brain MRI.
Maintained competitive diagnostic accuracy compared to models trained on original data.
Expert review and external validation confirmed extended gains beyond standard fidelity metrics.

Conclusions:

FairGen effectively synthesizes demographically balanced medical images, reducing AI bias.
The framework enhances fairness and diagnostic accuracy across diverse medical imaging applications.
FairGen represents a significant step towards equitable AI in healthcare.