Towards Ultrasound-based Reliable Disease Diagnosis Using Causal Inference

Bolei Chen; Jiaxu Kang; Haonan Yang; Ping Zhong; Yixiong Liang; Rui Fan; Jianxin Wang

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Towards Ultrasound-based Reliable Disease Diagnosis Using Causal Inference

Bolei Chen, Jiaxu Kang, Haonan Yang, Ping Zhong, Yixiong Liang, Rui Fan, Jianxin Wang

Abstract

Aligning the decision-making process of deep learning models with that of experienced sonographers is essential for ultrasound-based reliable disease diagnosis. Although existing methods have made significant progress in this aspect, their alignments are primarily associational rather than causal, leading to pseudo-correlations between features and diagnostic results. Such a biased diagnosis blindly models the sonographer

BibTeX

@inproceedings{aaai2026_towardsultrasoun,
  title = {Towards Ultrasound-based Reliable Disease Diagnosis Using Causal Inference},
  author = {Bolei Chen and Jiaxu Kang and Haonan Yang and Ping Zhong and Yixiong Liang and Rui Fan and Jianxin Wang},
  booktitle = {AAAI 2026},
  year = {2026}
}