arXiv:2605.08585cs.CVcs.AI2026-05

用可微提示调优实现多模态阿尔茨海默病诊断,提升临床推理效率。

PromptDx: Differentiable Prompt Tuning for Multimodal In-Context Alzheimer's Diagnosis

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  • 设计可微提示调优机制,连接多模态数据与非可微的上下文学习框架。
  • 仅用1%上下文样本即达标准ICL在30%样本下的性能,显著提升数据效率。
  • 适用于医疗多模态诊断,尤其适合小样本、类比推理场景。

医学影像中的深度学习模型通常作为参数化记忆,通过训练时学习的固定知识进行诊断。这与临床实践中医生参考过往相似病例进行类比推理的方式相悖。尽管基于表格的上下文学习(ICL)框架如TabPFN提供了诊断参照的新范式,但其依赖于表格专用归纳偏置和不可微预处理流程,在异构多模态数据上存在流形不匹配与梯度断裂问题。为此,我们提出PromptDx,一种以预训练的TabPFN为ICL引擎的新型诊断参照框架,同时实现多模态表示的无缝集成。核心贡献是可微提示调优(DPT)机制,通过轻量级适配器作为非可微预处理器的可微替代,使多模态提示能在ICL范式中端到端优化。我们在阿兹海默症神经影像计划(ADNI)数据集上使用3D MRI与表型生物标志物验证方法,实验表明该方法优于传统参数化基线。特别地,仅需1%上下文样本即可达到标准ICL在30%样本下的表现,体现卓越的流形压缩能力。我们在六个不同规模的表格数据集上进一步验证了DPT框架的泛化性。整体而言,该方法为阿兹海默病诊断提供更高效、更贴近临床的解决方案。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Deep learning models in medical imaging typically operate as parametric memory, diagnosing patients by recalling fixed knowledge learned during training. This contrasts sharply with clinical practice, where physicians employ analogical reasoning to diagnose new cases by referencing similar records from past exemplars. While In-Context Learning (ICL) frameworks such as Tabular Prior-Fitted Networks (TabPFN) offer a promising diagnosis-by-reference paradigm, they are designed with tabular-specific inductive priors and rely on non-differentiable preprocessing pipelines, leading to manifold mismatch and gradient fracture when applied to heterogeneous multimodal data. To address these limitations, we propose PromptDx, a novel diagnosis-by-reference framework that leverages a pre-trained TabPFN as an ICL engine while enabling seamless integration with multimodal representations. Our core contribution is a Differentiable Prompt Tuning (DPT) mechanism that aligns a Masked Multimodal Modeling module with the pre-trained ICL engine. By training a lightweight adapter as a differentiable surrogate for the engine's non-differentiable preprocessors, we enable an end-to-end optimization of multimodal prompts within the ICL paradigm. We validate our method on the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) dataset using 3D MRI and tabular biomarkers. Experiments demonstrate that our approach outperforms traditional parametric baselines. Notably, our method achieves superior performance using only 1% context samples compared to 30% in standard ICL, demonstrating exceptional manifold condensation ability. We further validate the generalizability of our DPT framework across six tabular datasets with diverse scales. Overall, our method offers a more data-efficient and clinically aligned paradigm for Alzheimer's Disease diagnosis.

多模态上下文学习可微调优阿尔茨海默病

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