arXiv:2605.19374cs.CVcs.AI2026-05中稿 · MICCAI 2026

通过临床概念框架消除胸部X光片中的噪声负样本,提升零样本诊断识别准确率。

Concept-Guided Noisy Negative Suppression for Zero-Shot Classification and Grounding of Chest X-Ray Findings

论文配图:Concept-Guided Noisy Negative Suppression for Zero-Shot Classification and Grounding of Chest X-Ray Findings
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  • 构建41个临床概念的分层语义结构,精准刻画病灶存在、位置与特征
  • 三步重标注策略:细粒度分类、噪声负例过滤、轻量模型挖掘细微差异
  • 提出概念感知对比损失,有效抑制同类患者间的误判干扰

基于胸部X光片与放射科报告的视觉-语言对齐已成为零样本分类与定位的重要范式。然而,传统对比学习将不同患者的图像与报告简单视为负样本,因患者间常有相似病灶而引入噪声负样本,导致语义模糊并降低零样本理解性能。为此,我们提出CoNNS——一种概念引导的噪声负样本抑制框架。不同于以往使用原始报告或模板文本的方法,我们利用大语言模型构建了一个分层临床概念本体,显式建模41个关键临床概念的存在性、属性(位置与特征)及文本片段(证据段与存在陈述)。基于此本体,设计跨患者样本重标注策略:(1)细粒度分解,按病灶存在性分类样本对;(2)噪声负样本过滤,通过消除语义冲突去除错误负例;(3)硬负样本挖掘,使用轻量级语言模型识别微小属性差异。最终提出概念感知NCE损失,实现视觉特征与文本的对齐同时抑制已识别的噪声负样本。在多粒度零样本定位任务及五个零样本分类数据集上的实验表明,CoNNS显著优于现有先进模型。代码已开源。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Vision-language alignment using chest X-rays and radiology reports has emerged as an advanced paradigm for zero-shot classification and grounding of chest X-ray findings. However, standard contrastive learning typically treats radiographs and reports from different patients simply as negative pairs. This assumption introduces noisy negatives, as different patients frequently exhibit similar findings. Such noisy negatives cause semantic ambiguity and degrade performance in zero-shot understanding tasks. To address this challenge, we propose CoNNS, a concept-guided noisy-negative suppression framework. To support the negative suppression mechanism, unlike previous methods that use raw reports or templatized texts, we construct a hierarchical concept ontology using large language models. The ontology structures 41 key clinical concepts by explicitly modeling presence, attributes (location and characteristics), and texts (evidential segment and presence statement). Leveraging this ontology, we implement a cross-patient pair relabeling strategy comprising three steps: (1) Fine-Grained Breakdown to categorize pairs based on finding presence; (2) Noisy Negative Filtering to resolve semantic conflicts by removing false negatives; and (3) Hard Negative Mining to identify subtle attribute discrepancies using a lightweight language model. Finally, we propose a Concept-Aware NCE loss to align visual features with text while suppressing the identified noisy negatives. Extensive experiments across multi-granularity zero-shot grounding tasks and five zero-shot classification datasets validate that CoNNS outperforms existing state-of-the-art models. The code is available at https://github.com/DopamineLcy/conns.

零样本学习医学影像视觉语言对齐概念本体

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