arXiv:2604.11171cs.CV2026-04

RARE25挑战赛构建真实低发病率下的食管腺癌检测基准,评估算法在临床实际中的表现。

Development and evaluation of CADe systems in low-prevalence setting: The RARE25 challenge for early detection of Barrett's neoplasia

  • 采用真实发病率的公开数据集与隐藏测试集,模拟临床低频发现场景
  • 多数方法敏感性高但阳性预测值仍低,表明低频检测仍具挑战
  • 推动无监督异常检测等抗发病率偏移方法的发展,适合临床筛查应用

食管腺样化生早期肿瘤的计算机辅助检测(CADe)属于低发病率监测问题,临床上相关病变极为罕见。尽管许多CADe系统在平衡或富集数据集上表现优异,但在真实发病率下的行为仍缺乏充分评估。RARE25挑战赛通过引入大规模、反映真实发病率的基准,填补这一空白,包含公开训练集和模拟真实发病率的隐藏测试集。评估采用以操作点为基准的指标,强调高敏感性并考虑发病率影响。来自七个国家的11支团队提交了基于不同架构、预训练、集成和校准策略的方法。虽然部分方法具备强区分能力,但阳性预测值普遍偏低,凸显低发病率检测的难度,也警示忽视发病率可能导致临床效用被过度估计。所有方法均依赖全监督分类,而正常样本占主导,反映出对无监督异常检测或单类学习等抗发病率偏移方法的缺失。通过发布公开数据集与可复现的评估框架,RARE25旨在推动鲁棒应对发病率变化的CADe系统发展,适配临床监测流程。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Computer-aided detection (CADe) of early neoplasia in Barrett's esophagus is a low-prevalence surveillance problem in which clinically relevant findings are rare. Although many CADe systems report strong performance on balanced or enriched datasets, their behavior under realistic prevalence remains insufficiently characterized. The RARE25 challenge addresses this gap by introducing a large-scale, prevalence-aware benchmark for neoplasia detection. It includes a public training set and a hidden test set reflecting real-world incidence. Methods were evaluated using operating-point-specific metrics emphasizing high sensitivity and accounting for prevalence. Eleven teams from seven countries submitted approaches using diverse architectures, pretraining, ensembling, and calibration strategies. While several methods achieved strong discriminative performance, positive predictive values remained low, highlighting the difficulty of low-prevalence detection and the risk of overestimating clinical utility when prevalence is ignored. All methods relied on fully supervised classification despite the dominance of normal findings, indicating a lack of prevalence-agnostic approaches such as anomaly detection or one-class learning. By releasing a public dataset and a reproducible evaluation framework, RARE25 aims to support the development of CADe systems robust to prevalence shift and suitable for clinical surveillance workflows.

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