A Textbook Remedy for Domain Shifts: Knowledge Priors for Medical Image Analysis

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Main Authors: Yang, Yue, Gandhi, Mona, Wang, Yufei, Wu, Yifan, Yao, Michael S., Callison-Burch, Chris, Gee, James C., Yatskar, Mark
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author Yang, Yue
Gandhi, Mona
Wang, Yufei
Wu, Yifan
Yao, Michael S.
Callison-Burch, Chris
Gee, James C.
Yatskar, Mark
author_facet Yang, Yue
Gandhi, Mona
Wang, Yufei
Wu, Yifan
Yao, Michael S.
Callison-Burch, Chris
Gee, James C.
Yatskar, Mark
contents While deep networks have achieved broad success in analyzing natural images, when applied to medical scans, they often fail in unexcepted situations. We investigate this challenge and focus on model sensitivity to domain shifts, such as data sampled from different hospitals or data confounded by demographic variables such as sex, race, etc, in the context of chest X-rays and skin lesion images. A key finding we show empirically is that existing visual backbones lack an appropriate prior from the architecture for reliable generalization in these settings. Taking inspiration from medical training, we propose giving deep networks a prior grounded in explicit medical knowledge communicated in natural language. To this end, we introduce Knowledge-enhanced Bottlenecks (KnoBo), a class of concept bottleneck models that incorporates knowledge priors that constrain it to reason with clinically relevant factors found in medical textbooks or PubMed. KnoBo uses retrieval-augmented language models to design an appropriate concept space paired with an automatic training procedure for recognizing the concept. We evaluate different resources of knowledge and recognition architectures on a broad range of domain shifts across 20 datasets. In our comprehensive evaluation with two imaging modalities, KnoBo outperforms fine-tuned models on confounded datasets by 32.4% on average. Finally, evaluations reveal that PubMed is a promising resource for making medical models less sensitive to domain shift, outperforming other resources on both diversity of information and final prediction performance.
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spellingShingle A Textbook Remedy for Domain Shifts: Knowledge Priors for Medical Image Analysis
Yang, Yue
Gandhi, Mona
Wang, Yufei
Wu, Yifan
Yao, Michael S.
Callison-Burch, Chris
Gee, James C.
Yatskar, Mark
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
While deep networks have achieved broad success in analyzing natural images, when applied to medical scans, they often fail in unexcepted situations. We investigate this challenge and focus on model sensitivity to domain shifts, such as data sampled from different hospitals or data confounded by demographic variables such as sex, race, etc, in the context of chest X-rays and skin lesion images. A key finding we show empirically is that existing visual backbones lack an appropriate prior from the architecture for reliable generalization in these settings. Taking inspiration from medical training, we propose giving deep networks a prior grounded in explicit medical knowledge communicated in natural language. To this end, we introduce Knowledge-enhanced Bottlenecks (KnoBo), a class of concept bottleneck models that incorporates knowledge priors that constrain it to reason with clinically relevant factors found in medical textbooks or PubMed. KnoBo uses retrieval-augmented language models to design an appropriate concept space paired with an automatic training procedure for recognizing the concept. We evaluate different resources of knowledge and recognition architectures on a broad range of domain shifts across 20 datasets. In our comprehensive evaluation with two imaging modalities, KnoBo outperforms fine-tuned models on confounded datasets by 32.4% on average. Finally, evaluations reveal that PubMed is a promising resource for making medical models less sensitive to domain shift, outperforming other resources on both diversity of information and final prediction performance.
title A Textbook Remedy for Domain Shifts: Knowledge Priors for Medical Image Analysis
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14839