Instrumental Variable Learning for Chest X-ray Classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.12070v1
• Date: Sat, 20 May 2023 03:12:23 GMT
• Title: Instrumental Variable Learning for Chest X-ray Classification
• Authors: Weizhi Nie, Chen Zhang, Dan song, Yunpeng Bai, Keliang Xie, Anan Liu
• Abstract summary: We propose an interpretable instrumental variable (IV) learning framework to eliminate the spurious association and obtain accurate causal representation. Our approach's performance is demonstrated using the MIMIC-CXR, NIH ChestX-ray 14, and CheXpert datasets.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The chest X-ray (CXR) is commonly employed to diagnose thoracic illnesses, but the challenge of achieving accurate automatic diagnosis through this method persists due to the complex relationship between pathology. In recent years, various deep learning-based approaches have been suggested to tackle this problem but confounding factors such as image resolution or noise problems often damage model performance. In this paper, we focus on the chest X-ray classification task and proposed an interpretable instrumental variable (IV) learning framework, to eliminate the spurious association and obtain accurate causal representation. Specifically, we first construct a structural causal model (SCM) for our task and learn the confounders and the preliminary representations of IV, we then leverage electronic health record (EHR) as auxiliary information and we fuse the above feature with our transformer-based semantic fusion module, so the IV has the medical semantic. Meanwhile, the reliability of IV is further guaranteed via the constraints of mutual information between related causal variables. Finally, our approach's performance is demonstrated using the MIMIC-CXR, NIH ChestX-ray 14, and CheXpert datasets, and we achieve competitive results.

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