arXiv AI By Wentao Yue, Tianyou Lai, Jiayu Luo, Qingyu Mao, Ziying Wang, Zhenyuan Ning, Qilei Li

TRACE: Training-time Report-guided and Clinically Ordered Concept Editing

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TRACE is a training-time framework that uses structured radiology reports to guide concept editing, allowing image-only diagnosis during inference. It refines image-derived concepts with a teacher-guided editing mechanism in a malignancy-aware ordered concept space and introduces Strategic Concept Missing Training to handle incomplete annotations. The authors also present BUSC, a benchmark linking images, labels, and structured attributes, and show that TRACE outperforms existing methods on multiple datasets with better cross-domain robustness.

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