arXiv:2507.07722cs.CV2025-07ICCV被引 2

分析胸部X光数据集中的隐藏偏见,揭示模型可能依赖数据来源而非病理特征。

Understanding Dataset Bias in Medical Imaging: A Case Study on Chest X-rays

  • 用分类任务检测四个主流胸片数据集的来源偏见
  • 模型在无病灶图像上仍能高准确率识别数据集来源
  • 提醒研究者警惕模型捷径,推动可解释医疗AI发展

近期研究重新审视了著名的「命名数据集」任务,发现非医学数据集存在隐含偏见,且该任务可实现高精度。本文将相同方法应用于主流开源胸部X光数据集(NIH、CheXpert、MIMIC-CXR、PadChest)。由于医学图像敏感性高,这些数据集成为研究常用资源。我们通过施加简单变换并重复实验,分析是否存在数据集偏见。结果表明,模型能在未标注病灶的图像上仍准确识别数据来源,暗示其可能依赖采集设备、扫描参数等非病理因素。这对医疗影像中人工智能应用的可靠性提出警示。我们测试了多种网络架构,旨在推动可解释性研究,并鼓励更多开放医学数据集建设。代码已公开于https://github.com/eedack01/x_ray_ds_bias。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Recent works have revisited the infamous task ``Name That Dataset'', demonstrating that non-medical datasets contain underlying biases and that the dataset origin task can be solved with high accuracy. In this work, we revisit the same task applied to popular open-source chest X-ray datasets. Medical images are naturally more difficult to release for open-source due to their sensitive nature, which has led to certain open-source datasets being extremely popular for research purposes. By performing the same task, we wish to explore whether dataset bias also exists in these datasets. To extend our work, we apply simple transformations to the datasets, repeat the same task, and perform an analysis to identify and explain any detected biases. Given the importance of AI applications in medical imaging, it's vital to establish whether modern methods are taking shortcuts or are focused on the relevant pathology. We implement a range of different network architectures on the datasets: NIH, CheXpert, MIMIC-CXR and PadChest. We hope this work will encourage more explainable research being performed in medical imaging and the creation of more open-source datasets in the medical domain. Our code can be found here: https://github.com/eedack01/x_ray_ds_bias.

医学影像数据偏见可解释性

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