Fairness Evolution in Continual Learning for Medical Imaging

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02480v1
• Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 09:48:52 GMT
• Title: Fairness Evolution in Continual Learning for Medical Imaging
• Authors: Marina Ceccon, Davide Dalle Pezze, Alessandro Fabris, Gian Antonio Susto,
• Abstract summary: We study the behavior of Continual Learning (CL) strategies in medical imaging regarding classification performance. We evaluate the Replay, Learning without Forgetting (LwF), LwF, and Pseudo-Label strategies. LwF and Pseudo-Label exhibit optimal classification performance, but when including fairness metrics in the evaluation, it is clear that Pseudo-Label is less biased.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Deep Learning (DL) has made significant strides in various medical applications in recent years, achieving remarkable results. In the field of medical imaging, DL models can assist doctors in disease diagnosis by classifying pathologies in Chest X-ray images. However, training on new data to expand model capabilities and adapt to distribution shifts is a notable challenge these models face. Continual Learning (CL) has emerged as a solution to this challenge, enabling models to adapt to new data while retaining knowledge gained from previous experiences. Previous studies have analyzed the behavior of CL strategies in medical imaging regarding classification performance. However, when considering models that interact with sensitive information, such as in the medical domain, it is imperative to disaggregate the performance of socially salient groups. Indeed, DL algorithms can exhibit biases against certain sub-populations, leading to discrepancies in predictive performance across different groups identified by sensitive attributes such as age, race/ethnicity, sex/gender, and socioeconomic status. In this study, we go beyond the typical assessment of classification performance in CL and study bias evolution over successive tasks with domain-specific fairness metrics. Specifically, we evaluate the CL strategies using the well-known CheXpert (CXP) and ChestX-ray14 (NIH) datasets. We consider a class incremental scenario of five tasks with 12 pathologies. We evaluate the Replay, Learning without Forgetting (LwF), LwF Replay, and Pseudo-Label strategies. LwF and Pseudo-Label exhibit optimal classification performance, but when including fairness metrics in the evaluation, it is clear that Pseudo-Label is less biased. For this reason, this strategy should be preferred when considering real-world scenarios in which it is crucial to consider the fairness of the model.

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