I just had some fun exercise with Diffusion model. Played with prompts like ’ A prime minister confessing his crime’ to changing guiding scales and inference steps. It was funny to see the images. I also added negative prompt as news being highlighted about his linkups with Epstein 
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This is the images I got
But here is my more serious question. I was wondering about latent space in healthcare.
So want to know especially from @ai_curious and @Honza_Zbirovsky
can one store medical images (radiography plus patient’s image like their face, images of their lesion or wound) in latent form in database, and make it only visible in original form when a patient checks into their database for medical health record, or a doctor treating the patient, making it more safe to encrypting healthcare data as when required and robust to any hacking into hospital data??
Thank you in advance
DP
Not clear to me the upside of storing both. What would a latent image be used for clinically? And if not used clinically, why store?
Feel like I’m missing something
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Storing an image in latent form per se, when the medical industry is try to digitize healthcare data, so patient healthcare records to be even saved in database in original form can be prone to hacking and being used in any form of threatening someone’s privacy to leaking someone’s healthcare detail could be an alarming issue in healthcare data privacy, in this case if images or radiographs are stored in latent form and if a hacking scenario happens, still the data is encrypted in the form latent form, preventing misuse of healthcare data by hackers.
In India, now many healthcare facilities are using digitization of handling healthcare data were we use a password to access our records from a common healthcare portal. My question is arising from this overall look of privacy and safety in healthcare.
Like recently I got a random OPG of a patient from a diagnostic center (they usually mess up because deepti is very common name and so doctor with similar name, tend to get patient related information from these diagnostic forum without checking if the doctor they have send the details is correct or not), so in this case also if the image or the report was encrypted in latent form( OPG radiograph), probably randomly I wouldn’t have been able to see a random patient’s dental image records.
Sorry to interrupt.
Please see rebac and abac. This seems missing / insufficiently configured in your case.
From this I infer that there is no clinical usage of the latent form image, it is merely being used as the encryption technology. My understanding is that this is a lossy compression, and while much of the important information is retained, I don’t think there is guarantee that ALL of the important information is retained. I also am of the understanding that this form of encryption requires private keys to decrypt. Who will have those keys; radiologist? Primary care physician? consulting physician/ specialist? Patient?
This is far from my area of expertise, but my first impression is that the primary strength/advantage of using latent form image doesn’t solve any of the real problems in healthcare imaging.
On year end holiday with the grandkids so limited bandwidth to dig deeper.
