arXiv:2602.15811cs.CVcs.AI2026-02

新模型可自动识别未知任务,持续学习胸部X光分类,遗忘极少。

CARL-CXR: Continual Adapter-Based Routing for Task-Unknown Chest Radiograph Classification

  • 用轻量适配器和动态路由,不重训旧数据。
  • 遗忘率仅0.012 AUROC下降,比基线低6~11倍。
  • 适合临床部署,无需任务标签,自动分路诊断。

临床应用中,胸片分类模型需在新数据到来时持续更新,而无需重新训练历史数据且不降低已验证性能。本文研究任务未知场景下的任务增量持续学习,即异构胸片数据集按顺序到达,推理时无法获知任务身份。提出CARL-CXR框架:固定高容量主干网络,逐步引入轻量级任务特定适配器与分类头;通过潜空间任务选择器,基于适配器条件特征动态路由输入至最相关任务路径,利用紧凑任务原型与特征级经验回放,在不存储原始图像的前提下保持任务身份。在MIMIC-CXR和CheXpert两个大规模数据集上的实验表明,该方法仅造成0.012 AUROC下降,相比基线方法LwF和EWC分别降低6倍和11倍;诊断性能保持良好(AUROC 0.74)。在任务未知推理下,路由准确率达75.0%,较联合训练提升12.5个百分点(62.5%),且无需显式任务标识,优于需任务标签的LwF和EWC。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Clinical deployment of chest radiograph classifiers requires models that can be updated as new datasets become available without retraining on previously observed data or degrading validated performance. We study a task-incremental continual learning setting for chest radiograph classification under task-unknown inference, where heterogeneous chest X-ray datasets arrive sequentially and task identity is unavailable at deployment time. We propose CARL-CXR, a continual adapter-based routing framework that maintains a fixed high-capacity backbone while incrementally introducing lightweight task-specific adapters and classifier heads. A latent task selector operates on adapter-conditioned features to dynamically route each input to the most relevant task pathway, leveraging compact task prototypes and feature-level experience replay to preserve task identity across sequential updates without storing raw images. Experiments on MIMIC-CXR and CheXpert two large-scale datasets with distinct patient populations, imaging devices, and annotation pipelines demonstrate that CARL-CXR achieves minimal catastrophic forgetting (0.012 AUROC drop), representing a 6X and 11X reduction over established continual learning baselines LwF and EWC respectively, while maintaining competitive diagnostic performance (AUROC 0.74). Under task unknown deployment, CARL-CXR outperforms joint training by 12.5 points in routing accuracy (75.0% vs. 62.5%): unlike LwF and EWC, which require explicit task identifiers at inference and provide no routing mechanism.

持续学习医学影像自动路由

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