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Hybrid Diffusion Model for Breast Ultrasound Image Augmentation

arXiv CS.AI

ArXi:2603.26834v1 Announce Type: cross We propose a hybrid diffusion-based augmentation framework to overcome the critical challenge of ultrasound data augmentation in breast ultrasound (BUS) datasets. Unlike conventional diffusion-based augmentations, our approach improves visual fidelity and preserves ultrasound texture by combining text-to-image generation with image-to-image (img2img) refinement, as well as fine-tuning with low-rank adaptation (LoRA) and textual inversion (TI.