Benchmarking Dependence Measures to Prevent Shortcut Learning in Medical Imaging

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Hauptverfasser: Müller, Sarah, Fay, Louisa, Koch, Lisa M., Gatidis, Sergios, Küstner, Thomas, Berens, Philipp
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author Müller, Sarah
Fay, Louisa
Koch, Lisa M.
Gatidis, Sergios
Küstner, Thomas
Berens, Philipp
author_facet Müller, Sarah
Fay, Louisa
Koch, Lisa M.
Gatidis, Sergios
Küstner, Thomas
Berens, Philipp
contents Medical imaging cohorts are often confounded by factors such as acquisition devices, hospital sites, patient backgrounds, and many more. As a result, deep learning models tend to learn spurious correlations instead of causally related features, limiting their generalizability to new and unseen data. This problem can be addressed by minimizing dependence measures between intermediate representations of task-related and non-task-related variables. These measures include mutual information, distance correlation, and the performance of adversarial classifiers. Here, we benchmark such dependence measures for the task of preventing shortcut learning. We study a simplified setting using Morpho-MNIST and a medical imaging task with CheXpert chest radiographs. Our results provide insights into how to mitigate confounding factors in medical imaging.
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spellingShingle Benchmarking Dependence Measures to Prevent Shortcut Learning in Medical Imaging
Müller, Sarah
Fay, Louisa
Koch, Lisa M.
Gatidis, Sergios
Küstner, Thomas
Berens, Philipp
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Medical imaging cohorts are often confounded by factors such as acquisition devices, hospital sites, patient backgrounds, and many more. As a result, deep learning models tend to learn spurious correlations instead of causally related features, limiting their generalizability to new and unseen data. This problem can be addressed by minimizing dependence measures between intermediate representations of task-related and non-task-related variables. These measures include mutual information, distance correlation, and the performance of adversarial classifiers. Here, we benchmark such dependence measures for the task of preventing shortcut learning. We study a simplified setting using Morpho-MNIST and a medical imaging task with CheXpert chest radiographs. Our results provide insights into how to mitigate confounding factors in medical imaging.
title Benchmarking Dependence Measures to Prevent Shortcut Learning in Medical Imaging
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18792