Intrinsic Bias Identification on Medical Image Datasets
Machine learning based medical image analysis highly depends on datasets.
Biases in the dataset can be learned by the model and degrade the
generalizability of the applications. There are studies on debiased models.
However, scientists and practitioners are difficult to identify implicit biases
in the datasets, which causes lack of reliable unbias test datasets to valid
models. To tackle this issue, we first define the data intrinsic bias
attribute, and then propose a novel bias identification framework for medical
image datasets. The framework contains two major components, KlotskiNet and
Bias Discriminant Direction Analysis(bdda), where KlostkiNet is to build the
mapping which makes backgrounds to distinguish positive and negative samples
and bdda provides a theoretical solution on determining bias attributes.
Experimental results on three datasets show the effectiveness of the bias
attributes discovered by the framework.