arXiv:2601.11987cs.CV2026-01

用解剖结构先验增强图像图神经网络,提升肺部X光诊断可解释性。

Structural Graph Neural Networks with Anatomical Priors for Explainable Chest X-ray Diagnosis

  • 将图像块转为带空间坐标的图,用定制传播机制建模相对位置关系
  • 同时实现病变定位与整体诊断推理,通过节点重要性得分自动解释结果
  • 无需事后可视化,适用于医疗影像等需透明决策的领域

我们提出一种结合显式解剖先验的结构化图推理框架,用于可解释的视觉诊断。卷积特征图被重新诠释为基于图像块的图结构,其中节点编码外观与空间坐标,边反映局部结构邻接关系。不同于依赖通用消息传递的传统图神经网络,我们设计了定制化的结构传播机制,显式建模相对空间关系以融入推理过程。该设计使图成为结构化推理的归纳偏置,而非被动的关系表征。所提模型同时支持节点级病灶感知预测与图级诊断推理,通过学习到的节点重要性得分实现内在可解释性,无需依赖事后可视化技术。我们在胸部X光案例中验证了该方法,展示了结构先验如何引导关系推理并提升可解释性。尽管在医学影像场景中评估,该框架具有领域无关性,契合图基推理在人工智能系统中的广泛应用愿景。本工作推动了图作为结构感知与可解释学习计算基础的研究进展。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

We present a structural graph reasoning framework that incorporates explicit anatomical priors for explainable vision-based diagnosis. Convolutional feature maps are reinterpreted as patch-level graphs, where nodes encode both appearance and spatial coordinates, and edges reflect local structural adjacency. Unlike conventional graph neural networks that rely on generic message passing, we introduce a custom structural propagation mechanism that explicitly models relative spatial relations as part of the reasoning process. This design enables the graph to act as an inductive bias for structured inference rather than a passive relational representation. The proposed model jointly supports node-level lesion-aware predictions and graph-level diagnostic reasoning, yielding intrinsic explainability through learned node importance scores without relying on post-hoc visualization techniques. We demonstrate the approach through a chest X-ray case study, illustrating how structural priors guide relational reasoning and improve interpretability. While evaluated in a medical imaging context, the framework is domain-agnostic and aligns with the broader vision of graph-based reasoning across artificial intelligence systems. This work contributes to the growing body of research exploring graphs as computational substrates for structure-aware and explainable learning.

图神经网络可解释性医学影像结构先验

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