提出公平医疗AI框架,提升非接触中风诊断的公正性与准确性
FAST-CAD: A Fairness-Aware Framework for Non-Contact Stroke Diagnosis
- 结合对抗域适应与分组分布鲁棒优化,学习跨人群不变特征
- 在12个年龄性别体位组合中实现性能稳定,最差组准确率提升18%
- 理论可证明收敛性与公平性边界,适合医疗AI公平性研究者
中风是急性脑血管疾病,及时诊断显著提高患者生存率。然而现有自动化诊断方法在不同人口群体间存在公平性问题,可能加剧医疗不平等。本文提出FAST-CAD,一个基于域对抗训练(DAT)与分组分布鲁棒优化(Group-DRO)的公平非接触中风诊断框架。该方法建立在域适应与极小极大公平性理论基础上,提供收敛保证与公平性边界。我们构建了一个多模态数据集,覆盖由年龄、性别和体位定义的12个人口亚组。FAST-CAD采用自监督编码器配合对抗域判别,学习人口无关表征;同时利用Group-DRO优化最差组风险,确保所有群体性能稳健。大量实验表明,该方法在保持群体公平性的同时实现更优诊断性能,理论分析也验证了统一框架的有效性。本工作为公平医疗AI系统提供了实用进展与理论支持。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Stroke is an acute cerebrovascular disease, and timely diagnosis significantly improves patient survival. However, existing automated diagnosis methods suffer from fairness issues across demographic groups, potentially exacerbating healthcare disparities. In this work we propose FAST-CAD, a theoretically grounded framework that combines domain-adversarial training (DAT) with group distributionally robust optimization (Group-DRO) for fair and accurate non-contact stroke diagnosis. Our approach is built on domain adaptation and minimax fairness theory and provides convergence guarantees and fairness bounds. We curate a multimodal dataset covering 12 demographic subgroups defined by age, gender, and posture. FAST-CAD employs self-supervised encoders with adversarial domain discrimination to learn demographic-invariant representations, while Group-DRO optimizes worst-group risk to ensure robust performance across all subgroups. Extensive experiments show that our method achieves superior diagnostic performance while maintaining fairness across demographic groups, and our theoretical analysis supports the effectiveness of the unified DAT + Group-DRO framework. This work provides both practical advances and theoretical insights for fair medical AI systems.
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