arXiv:2605.22872cs.LGcs.AI2026-05

让医疗AI学会从诊断错误中积累经验,提升鉴别诊断能力。

MedExpMem: Adapting Experience Memory for Differential Diagnosis

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  • 用诊断失败记录构建可检索的差异性记忆
  • 在11个放射科亚专业上提升最高7.0%准确率
  • 适合需要持续学习的临床推理场景

资深医生通过临床实践发展出区分相似病症的能力。当前医疗视觉语言模型(VLMs)缺乏此能力——其参数存储的是静态知识,无法随诊断经历演化。我们提出MedExpMem,一种经验记忆框架,使基于VLM的诊断代理能够积累鉴别诊断专长。不同于检索增强生成所依赖的百科式疾病描述,MedExpMem记忆代理自身诊断失败中提炼出的判别性经验,并以成对的差异笔记形式组织,包含关键判别特征、可操作决策规则和推理错误模式。该框架采用两阶段构建过程,模拟医生学习:初始实践暴露知识盲区,反思性重诊则深化理解。面对新病例时,代理会检索经验记忆以指导鉴别推理。我们在涵盖11个放射科亚专业的基准上评估MedExpMem,结果表明在不同模型与规模下均实现一致准确率提升,最高达7.0%。分析实验验证了经验质量与鲁棒性,证明MedExpMem是超越参数化学习、满足医疗适应需求的有力方法。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Experienced physicians develop diagnostic expertise through clinical practice, acquiring not only disease knowledge but also the ability to differentiate confusable conditions. Current medical vision-language models (VLMs) lack this capability -- their parameters encode static knowledge that does not evolve across diagnostic encounters. We propose MedExpMem, an experience memory framework enabling VLM-based diagnostic agents to accumulate differential diagnosis expertise. Unlike retrieval-augmented generation, which retrieves encyclopedic disease descriptions, MedExpMem memorizes discriminative experience derived from the agent's own diagnostic failures and organizes them as pairwise differential notes encoding key discriminators, actionable decision rules and reasoning error patterns. The framework adopts a two-phase construction process mirroring physician learning: initial practice exposes knowledge gaps, and reflective re-diagnosis refines understanding. When encountering new cases, the agent retrieves experience memory to guide differential reasoning. We evaluate MedExpMem on a radiology benchmark spanning 11 subspecialties. Results demonstrate consistent accuracy improvements, maximum 7.0%, across diverse models and scales. Analytical experiments validate experience quality and robustness, demonstrating MedExpMem as a competitive method addresses medical adaptation needs beyond the reach of parameteric learning.

医学AI经验记忆鉴别诊断视觉语言模型

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