让医疗AI少犯致命错误,提升临床可信度。
Risk-Calibrated Learning: Minimizing Fatal Errors in Medical AI

- 引入临床严重性矩阵,区分可接受的模糊误差与致命错误。
- 在4个医学影像数据集上,致命错误率降低20%至92.4%。
- 无需改动模型结构,适配CNN与Transformer架构。
深度学习模型在医学图像分类中常达到专家水平准确率,但存在关键缺陷:产生语义不连贯的高置信度错误(如将恶性肿瘤误判为良性),这类致命错误与因视觉模糊导致的正常差异本质不同,严重削弱临床信任。为此,我们提出风险校准学习(Risk-Calibrated Learning),显式区分视觉模糊(细粒度误差)与结构性灾难性错误。通过将混淆感知的临床严重性矩阵M嵌入优化过程,该方法在不改变模型结构的前提下,有效抑制关键错误(假阴性)。我们在四种成像模态上验证:脑肿瘤MRI、ISIC 2018(皮肤镜)、BreaKHis(乳腺组织病理)、SICAPv2(前列腺组织病理)。大量实验表明,风险校准损失在所有数据集上均显著降低致命错误率(CER),相比Focal Loss等先进基线,相对安全提升达20.0%(乳腺病理)至92.4%(前列腺病理)。结果证实该方法在CNN与Transformer架构下均实现更优的安全-精度权衡。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Deep learning models often achieve expert-level accuracy in medical image classification but suffer from a critical flaw: semantic incoherence. These high-confidence mistakes that are semantically incoherent (e.g., classifying a malignant tumor as benign) fundamentally differ from acceptable errors which stem from visual ambiguity. Unlike safe, fine-grained disagreements, these fatal failures erode clinical trust. To address this, we propose Risk-Calibrated Learning, a technique that explicitly distinguishes between visual ambiguity (fine-grained errors) and catastrophic structural errors. By embedding a confusion-aware clinical severity matrix M into the optimization landscape, our method suppresses critical errors (false negatives) without requiring complex architectural changes. We validate our approach in four different imaging modalities: Brain Tumor MRI, ISIC 2018 (Dermoscopy), BreaKHis (Breast Histopathology), and SICAPv2 (Prostate Histopathology). Extensive experiments demonstrate that our Risk-Calibrated Loss consistently reduces the Critical Error Rate (CER) for all four datasets, achieving relative safety improvements ranging from 20.0% (on breast histopathology) to 92.4% (on prostate histopathology) compared to state-of-the-art baselines such as Focal Loss. These results confirm that our method offers a superior safety-accuracy trade-off across both CNN and Transformer architectures.
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