arXiv:2509.22712eess.IVcs.CV2025-09被引 2

通过肤色归一化与通道剪枝,提升皮肤病变检测的公平性。

Achieving Fair Skin Lesion Detection through Skin Tone Normalization and Channel Pruning

  • 基于ITA损失的肤色归一化,自动平衡不同肤色数据分布。
  • 双层优化框架实现多属性公平性提升,准确率下降小于3%。
  • 适合关注医疗模型公平性的研究者与开发者使用。

近期研究表明,基于深度学习的皮肤病变图像分类模型在不平衡数据集上训练时,可能对种族、年龄、性别等受保护人口特征产生偏差。现有偏差缓解方法通常在公平性与准确率之间权衡,或仅针对单一属性有效。多数策略为事前数据处理或事后评估,未融入模型学习过程。为此,我们提出一种基于个体类型角度(ITA)损失的肤色归一化与数据增强方法,并集成至可适应的元学习联合通道剪枝框架中。在肤色归一化阶段,利用ITA估计肤色类型并自动调整至目标色调以实现数据均衡;在联合通道剪枝框架中,内层优化通过加权软最近邻损失识别并剪除局部关键通道,外层优化则通过元集上的组间方差损失更新各属性权重。在ISIC2019数据集上的实验验证了该方法在不显著降低准确率的前提下,同时提升模型在多个敏感属性上的公平性。尽管剪枝机制增加了训练阶段的计算开销,但训练通常为离线进行,实际应用影响较小。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Recent works have shown that deep learning based skin lesion image classification models trained on unbalanced dataset can exhibit bias toward protected demographic attributes such as race, age,and gender. Current bias mitigation methods usually either achieve high level of fairness with the degradation of accuracy, or only improve the model fairness on a single attribute. Additionally usually most bias mitigation strategies are either pre hoc through data processing or post hoc through fairness evaluation, instead of being integrated into the model learning itself. To solve these existing drawbacks, we propose a new Individual Typology Angle (ITA) Loss-based skin tone normalization and data augmentation method that directly feeds into an adaptable meta learning-based joint channel pruning framework. In skin tone normalization, ITA is used to estimate skin tone type and adjust automatically to target tones for dataset balancing. In the joint channel pruning framework, two nested optimization loops are used to find critical channels.The inner optimization loop finds and prunes the local critical channels by weighted soft nearest neighbor loss, and the outer optimization loop updates the weight of each attribute using group wise variance loss on meta-set. Experiments conducted in the ISIC2019 dataset validate the effectiveness of our method in simultaneously improving the fairness of the model on multiple sensitive attributes without significant degradation of accuracy. Finally, although the pruning mechanism adds some computational cost during training phase, usually training is done off line. More importantly,

皮肤病变公平性通道剪枝元学习

Thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability. PaperDance 不是 arXiv 官方产品;中文卡片由大模型生成,请以原文为准。