用智能代理自动发现手术中质谱数据的可解释概念,提升癌症边缘检测准确率。
Agent-Guided Relational Concept Discovery: Toward Interpretable Surgical Margin Assessment

- 用推理代理从无标签数据中自动生成可解释的生物化学概念
- 在皮肤和乳腺癌数据集上平衡准确率与敏感性均优于基线模型
- 结合代谢知识图谱增强概念合理性,适合临床可解释性需求
深度学习模型能有效利用快速蒸发电离质谱(REIMS)数据进行手术边缘评估,但其临床应用受限于对术中复杂条件的泛化能力不足。原因在于模型通常在切除组织样本的标注光谱上训练,而实际手术中需处理噪声大、无标签的数据。此外,深度模型的黑箱特性也阻碍了行为理解与改进。概念学习提供了一种可行方案,将原始测量映射为人类可理解的概念。然而,监督式概念学习依赖难以获取的概念标注。本文提出Agent-Guided Concept Discovery框架,无需预设概念标签即可从数据中学习有意义的概念。训练中,推理代理会优化概念语义描述,并根据诊断相关性动态调整权重;概念进一步通过生化知识图谱进行锚定,确保符合已知代谢关系。在皮肤癌与乳腺癌数据集上,该模型在平衡准确率和敏感性上优于基线。代表性术中案例显示,其假阳性更少,表明对术中条件具有更强泛化能力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Deep learning models can effectively use Rapid Evaporative Ionization Mass Spectrometry (REIMS) data for surgical margin assessment. However, their clinical adoption remains challenging due to limited generalization to operating room conditions. This difficulty arises because models are typically trained on labeled spectra collected from resected tissue samples, while they must operate on noisy, unlabeled data acquired directly during surgery. In addition, the black-box nature of deep learning models makes it difficult to understand and systematically improve their behavior. Concept-based learning offers a promising way to address these challenges by mapping raw measurements to human-understandable concepts. However, supervised concept-based approaches rely on concept annotations, which are difficult to obtain in complex mass spectrometry workflows. We propose Agent-Guided Concept Discovery, a framework that learns meaningful concepts directly from data without requiring predefined concept labels. During training, a reasoning agent refines semantic descriptions of the learned concepts and adaptively adjusts their weight based on diagnostic relevance. These concepts are further grounded using a biochemical knowledge graph to ensure consistency with known metabolic relationships. Across Skin and Breast Cancer datasets, our model improves balanced accuracy and sensitivity over the baseline. In a representative intraoperative case, it shows fewer false positives, indicating better generalization to surgical conditions.
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