无需异常标签,逐步学习正常样本以提升医学影像异常检测精度。
I Detect What I Don't Know: Incremental Anomaly Learning with Stochastic Weight Averaging-Gaussian for Oracle-Free Medical Imaging
- 用轻量适配器和动态阈值筛选新正常样本,实现无监督增量学习。
- 在多个数据集上显著提升性能,如新冠胸片ROC-AUC达0.9982。
- 适合标注稀缺的医疗场景,避免模型漂移且计算开销极低。
医学影像中未知异常检测因异常样本标签稀缺与专家标注成本高而面临挑战。本文提出一种无监督、无需先验知识的增量异常学习框架,可逐步扩充可信的正常样本集,无需任何异常标签。从少量已验证的正常图像种子开始,方法交替进行轻量级适配器更新与不确定性门控的样本接纳。冻结的预训练视觉主干搭配微型卷积适配器,实现快速领域适应且计算开销极小。提取的嵌入向量存入紧凑的核集合(coreset),支持高效的k近邻异常评分。通过双重概率门控确保增量扩展的安全性:仅当样本到现有核集合的距离在校准的z分数阈值内,且基于SWAG的主观不确定性低于种子校准阈值时才被接纳。该机制防止模型漂移与误纳入,无需生成重建或重播缓冲区。实验证明,随着未标注数据流入,系统持续优化正常定义,性能显著优于基线。在COVID-CXR上,ROC-AUC从0.9489提升至0.9982(F1: 0.8048→0.9746);在Pneumonia CXR上,ROC-AUC从0.6834升至0.8968;在Brain MRI ND-5上,ROC-AUC从0.6041增至0.7269,PR-AUC从0.7539增至0.8211。结果表明该框架在真实、标签稀缺的医学影像场景中高效有效。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Unknown anomaly detection in medical imaging remains a fundamental challenge due to the scarcity of labeled anomalies and the high cost of expert supervision. We introduce an unsupervised, oracle-free framework that incrementally expands a trusted set of normal samples without any anomaly labels. Starting from a small, verified seed of normal images, our method alternates between lightweight adapter updates and uncertainty-gated sample admission. A frozen pretrained vision backbone is augmented with tiny convolutional adapters, ensuring rapid domain adaptation with negligible computational overhead. Extracted embeddings are stored in a compact coreset enabling efficient k-nearest neighbor anomaly (k-NN) scoring. Safety during incremental expansion is enforced by dual probabilistic gates, a sample is admitted into the normal memory only if its distance to the existing coreset lies within a calibrated z-score threshold, and its SWAG-based epistemic uncertainty remains below a seed-calibrated bound. This mechanism prevents drift and false inclusions without relying on generative reconstruction or replay buffers. Empirically, our system steadily refines the notion of normality as unlabeled data arrive, producing substantial gains over baselines. On COVID-CXR, ROC-AUC improves from 0.9489 to 0.9982 (F1: 0.8048 to 0.9746); on Pneumonia CXR, ROC-AUC rises from 0.6834 to 0.8968; and on Brain MRI ND-5, ROC-AUC increases from 0.6041 to 0.7269 and PR-AUC from 0.7539 to 0.8211. These results highlight the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed framework for real-world, label-scarce medical imaging applications.
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