Apply Data Augmentation to 3D Volumes


Hello Reader,

Have you ever needed to apply data augmentation to 3D volumes?

Here's a quick tutorial on how to do so ↓

What is Data Augmentation?

In order to train a neural network, a significant amount of data is required to obtain a well performing and robust model that can work with the majority of cases (a generalizable model). However, it is not always possible to obtain a large amount of natural data in any task, particularly in healthcare projects. One input in 3D medical imaging is a single patient with multiple slices, so it's difficult to collect a large dataset of patients.

Data augmentation allows you to start from a small dataset, apply different transformations on it in order to obtain a larger dataset with more variety. This is done by applying transformations such as: left-right shift, rotation, changing contrast, etc.

Data Augmentation using MONAI and Python

Here's a code snippet on how to apply data augmentation on 3D volumes using MONAI and Python.

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