4 papers
Dual Causal Inference: Integrating Backdoor Adjustment and Instrumental Variable Learning for Medical VQA
Zibo Xu, Qiang Li, Ke Lu +3
Medical Visual Question Answering (MedVQA) aims to generate clinically reliable answers conditioned on complex medical images and questions. However, existing methods often overfit…
Unlabeled Cross-Center Automatic Analysis for TAAD: An Integrated Framework from Segmentation to Clinical Features
Mengdi Liu, Qiang Li, Weizhi Nie +2
Type A Aortic Dissection (TAAD) is a life-threatening cardiovascular emergency that demands rapid and precise preoperative evaluation. While key anatomical and pathological feature…
CIV-DG: Conditional Instrumental Variables for Domain Generalization in Medical Imaging
Shaojin Bai, Yuting Su, Weizhi Nie
Cross-site generalizability in medical AI is fundamentally compromised by selection bias, a structural mechanism where patient demographics (e.g., age, severity) non-randomly dicta…
Mask-Guided Attention Regulation for Anatomically Consistent Counterfactual CXR Synthesis
Zichun Zhang, Weizhi Nie, Honglin Guo +1
Counterfactual generation for chest X-rays (CXR) aims to simulate plausible pathological changes while preserving patient-specific anatomy. However, diffusion-based editing methods…