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Abstract #1295

Towards confounding-free and causal predictions: Mitigation of Multiple Spurious Correlations in Deep Learning-Based MRI analysis

Louisa Fay1,2,3, Hajer Reguigui2, Bin Yang2, Sergios Gatidis3, and Thomas Kuestner1
1Medical Image and Data Analysis (MIDAS.lab), Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, 2Institute of Signal Processing and System Theory, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, 3Stanford Medicine, Department of Radiology, Stanford, CA, United States

Synopsis

Keywords: Analysis/Processing, Data Processing, Causality, Confounder-free learning

Motivation: Deep learning models in MRI are prone to learn spurious correlations, induced by confoundings of e.g. scanners, patient demographics, instead of operating on the true causal dependencies. This can lead to reduced generalization and biased predictions.

Goal(s): We aim to develop a robust framework that eliminates multiple spurious correlations, enabling predictions based on causal relationships.

Approach: Our novel framework, MIMM-X, leverages a Confounder-Attention-Summarizer to mitigate multiple spurious correlations. It disentangles casual features from spuriously correlated features and minimizes the mutual information between them.

Results: MIMM-X demonstrates improved generalization and robustness in diverse MRI settings, effectively removing spurious correlations across scanners and patient populations.

Impact: Our novel framework, MIMM-X, an extension of our previous model (MIMM), is able to remove multiple spurious correlations in MRI, ensuring causal predictions based on task-relevant features. This approach improves generalization for data across various MR scanners and patient demographics.

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