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Xiaomeng Li 0001

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ICML Conference 2025 Conference Paper

Concept-Based Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

Xinyue Xu
Yueying Hu
Hui Tang
Yi Qin 0004
Lu Mi
Hao Wang 0014
Xiaomeng Li 0001

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) enhance interpretability by explaining predictions through human-understandable concepts but typically assume that training and test data share the same distribution. This assumption often fails under domain shifts, leading to degraded performance and poor generalization. To address these limitations and improve the robustness of CBMs, we propose the Concept-based Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (CUDA) framework. CUDA is designed to: (1) align concept representations across domains using adversarial training, (2) introduce a relaxation threshold to allow minor domain-specific differences in concept distributions, thereby preventing performance drop due to over-constraints of these distributions, (3) infer concepts directly in the target domain without requiring labeled concept data, enabling CBMs to adapt to diverse domains, and (4) integrate concept learning into conventional domain adaptation (DA) with theoretical guarantees, improving interpretability and establishing new benchmarks for DA. Experiments demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art CBM and DA methods on real-world datasets.

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ICLR Conference 2025 Conference Paper

Interpretable Bilingual Multimodal Large Language Model for Diverse Biomedical Tasks

Lehan Wang
Haonan Wang
Honglong Yang
Jiaji Mao
Zehong Yang
Jun Shen 0008
Xiaomeng Li 0001

Several medical Multimodal Large Languange Models (MLLMs) have been developed to address tasks involving visual images with textual instructions across various medical modalities, achieving impressive results. Most current medical generalist models are region-agnostic, treating the entire image as a holistic representation. However, they struggle to identify which specific regions they are focusing on when generating a sentence. To mimic the behavior of doctors, who typically begin by reviewing the entire image before concentrating on specific regions for a thorough evaluation, we aim to enhance the capability of medical MLLMs in understanding anatomical regions within entire medical scans. To achieve it, we first formulate \textbf{Region-Centric tasks} and construct a \textbf{large-scale dataset, MedRegInstruct,} to incorporate regional information into training. Combining our collected dataset with other medical multimodal corpora for training, we propose a \textbf{Region-Aware medical MLLM, MedRegA}, which is the first bilingual generalist medical AI system to simultaneously handle image-level and region-level medical vision-language tasks across a broad range of modalities. Our MedRegA not only enables three region-centric tasks, but also achieves the best performance for visual question answering, report generation and medical image classification over 8 modalities, showcasing significant versatility. Experiments demonstrate that our model can not only accomplish powerful performance across various medical vision-language tasks in bilingual settings, but also recognize and detect structures in multimodal medical scans, boosting the interpretability and user interactivity of medical MLLMs. The codes and model will be made publicly available.

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ICLR Conference 2024 Conference Paper

Energy-Based Concept Bottleneck Models: Unifying Prediction, Concept Intervention, and Probabilistic Interpretations

Xinyue Xu
Yi Qin 0006
Lu Mi
Hao Wang 0014
Xiaomeng Li 0001

Existing methods, such as concept bottleneck models (CBMs), have been successful in providing concept-based interpretations for black-box deep learning models. They typically work by predicting concepts given the input and then predicting the final class label given the predicted concepts. However, (1) they often fail to capture the high-order, nonlinear interaction between concepts, e.g., correcting a predicted concept (e.g., “yellow breast”) does not help correct highly correlated concepts (e.g., “yellow belly”), leading to suboptimal final accuracy; (2) they cannot naturally quantify the complex conditional dependencies between different concepts and class labels (e.g., for an image with the class label “Kentucky Warbler” and a concept “black bill”, what is the probability that the model correctly predicts another concept “black crown”), therefore failing to provide deeper insight into how a black-box model works. In response to these limitations, we propose Energy-based Concept Bottleneck Models (ECBMs). Our ECBMs use a set of neural networks to define the joint energy of candidate (input, concept, class) tuples. With such a unified interface, prediction, concept correction, and conditional dependency quantification are then represented as conditional probabilities, which are generated by composing different energy functions. Our ECBMs address both limitations of existing CBMs, providing higher accuracy and richer concept interpretations. Empirical results show that our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art on real-world datasets.

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ICML Conference 2024 Conference Paper

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Anatomical Structure Detection in Ultrasound Images

Bin Pu
Xingguo Lv
Jiewen Yang
Guannan He
Xingbo Dong
Yiqun Lin
Shengli Li 0001
Tan Ying

Models trained on ultrasound images from one institution typically experience a decline in effectiveness when transferred directly to other institutions. Moreover, unlike natural images, dense and overlapped structures exist in fetus ultrasound images, making the detection of structures more challenging. Thus, to tackle this problem, we propose a new Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) method named ToMo-UDA for fetus structure detection, which consists of the Topology Knowledge Transfer (TKT) and the Morphology Knowledge Transfer (MKT) module. The TKT leverages prior knowledge of the medical anatomy of fetal as topological information, reconstructing and aligning anatomy features across source and target domains. Then, the MKT formulates a more consistent and independent morphological representation for each substructure of an organ. To evaluate the proposed ToMo-UDA for ultrasound fetal anatomical structure detection, we introduce FUSH$^2$, a new F etal U ltra S ound benchmark, comprises H eart and H ead images collected from Two health centers, with 16 annotated regions. Our experiments show that utilizing topological and morphological anatomy information in ToMo-UDA can greatly improve organ structure detection. This expands the potential for structure detection tasks in medical image analysis.

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