解决胸部X光报告生成中的遗漏噪声问题,提升病灶检出率。
Positive-Unlabeled Preference Optimization For Chest X-ray Report Generation

- 将未提及病灶视为未标注而非真实负例,重构偏好信号。
- 在多种病理上检测率提升,对遗漏噪声更鲁棒。
- 适合医学影像生成与临床辅助诊断研究者使用。
放射科报告生成的视觉语言模型通常基于回顾性临床报告训练,存在遗漏噪声:因忽略细微发现,临床上存在的病灶未被报告。例如,当影像请求聚焦于监测支持设备位置时,心影增大可能被遗漏。因此,传统方法训练的模型会继承这些遗漏,自身也倾向于漏报。本文提出PU-DPO,一种基于正-未标注(PU)学习框架的偏好优化方法,将未提及的发现视为未标注而非真实负例。通过编辑模型输出构建对比样本对,生成明确提及或省略特定病灶的变体,视觉证据背景下提及病灶的响应更受青睐。在半合成实验和真实世界胸部X光基准测试中,PU-DPO在多个病理性状上均显著提升检测率与隐性阳性恢复率,且对遗漏噪声更具鲁棒性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for radiology report generation are typically trained on retrospective clinical reports, which suffer from omission noise: clinically present findings are left unreported due to the omission of subtle findings. For example, prior studies show that cardiomegaly may be omitted from ICU chest X-ray reports when the imaging request is focused on monitoring support device placement. As a result, models trained with standard approaches inherit these omissions, learning to under-report findings themselves. We propose PU-DPO, a preference optimization framework to prevent omission noise from corrupting the preference signal. We reformulate the objective under a positive-unlabeled (PU) learning framework, treating absent mentions as unlabeled rather than truly negative. Our framework provides preference supervision using constructed contrastive pairs, generated using edits to model responses, producing variants that explicitly mention or omit a specific finding. Generated responses that mention the finding are naturally preferred in the context of visual evidence. Across semi-synthetic experiments and analyses on real-world chest radiograph benchmarks where adjudicated labels are available, PU-DPO yields consistent gains in detection rates and recovery of hidden positives across multiple pathologies, and is more robust to omission noise than prior approaches.
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