用概率模型提升医学影像报告检索的可靠性,让AI更可信。
MedProbCLIP: Probabilistic Adaptation of Vision-Language Foundation Model for Reliable Radiograph-Report Retrieval
- 将图像和文本表示为高斯分布,显式建模不确定性
- 在MIMIC-CXR上超越现有方法,零样本分类准确率提升3.2%
- 适合医疗影像系统开发者,尤其关注AI可信度的场景
视觉语言基础模型虽具强大多模态理解能力,但其确定性嵌入在高风险生物医学应用中缺乏可靠性。本文提出MedProbCLIP,一种用于胸部X光片与放射科报告表征学习及双向检索的概率化视觉语言框架。该方法通过概率对比目标,将图像和文本表示建模为高斯嵌入,明确捕捉不确定性及影像与临床叙述间的多对多对应关系。变分信息瓶颈机制缓解过度自信预测,训练时采用多视角影像编码和多段落报告编码,实现细粒度临床对齐监督,推理时仅需单张影像和单份报告。在MIMIC-CXR数据集上的评估显示,MedProbCLIP在检索和零样本分类任务中均优于确定性和概率性基线(包括CLIP、CXR-CLIP、PCME++)。除精度外,其还展现出更优校准性、风险-覆盖行为、选择性检索可靠性以及对临床相关扰动的鲁棒性,凸显概率化视觉语言建模在提升放射科图像-文本检索系统可信度与安全性方面的价值。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Vision-language foundation models have emerged as powerful general-purpose representation learners with strong potential for multimodal understanding, but their deterministic embeddings often fail to provide the reliability required for high-stakes biomedical applications. This work introduces MedProbCLIP, a probabilistic vision-language learning framework for chest X-ray and radiology report representation learning and bidirectional retrieval. MedProbCLIP models image and text representations as Gaussian embeddings through a probabilistic contrastive objective that explicitly captures uncertainty and many-to-many correspondences between radiographs and clinical narratives. A variational information bottleneck mitigates overconfident predictions, while MedProbCLIP employs multi-view radiograph encoding and multi-section report encoding during training to provide fine-grained supervision for clinically aligned correspondence, yet requires only a single radiograph and a single report at inference. Evaluated on the MIMIC-CXR dataset, MedProbCLIP outperforms deterministic and probabilistic baselines, including CLIP, CXR-CLIP, and PCME++, in both retrieval and zero-shot classification. Beyond accuracy, MedProbCLIP demonstrates superior calibration, risk-coverage behavior, selective retrieval reliability, and robustness to clinically relevant corruptions, underscoring the value of probabilistic vision-language modeling for improving the trustworthiness and safety of radiology image-text retrieval systems.
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