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To develop a framework that enables accurate and interpretable prostate cancer diagnosis while minimizing the need for extensive expert annotations.

ProCausal-WS: Weakly Supervised Causal Representation Learning Driven Interpretable Prostate Cancer Diagnosis

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Causal representation learning improves prostate cancer diagnosis accuracy, highlighting efficient annotation use.

To develop a framework that enables accurate and interpretable prostate cancer diagnosis while minimizing the need for extensive expert annotations.
Introduced ProCausal-WS, a weakly supervised causal representation learning framework.
Utilized an invertible flow causal encoder to map high-dimensional observations to a low-dimensional space.
Implemented a dynamic clinical intervention module for simulating treatment scenarios and generating counterfactual predictions.
Combined contrastive learning with weakly supervised alignment to enhance semantic identifiability.
Achieved 92.3% accuracy in clinical causal concept identification with only 8% expert annotations on TCGA-PRAD.
Reduced intervention mean-squared error to 0.018, significantly lower than baseline.
Maintained a minimal AUROC drop of 0.026 across different datasets and institutions.
Expert evaluations indicated 89.6% of counterfactual predictions were biologically plausible.

Kong et al. (2026) studied this question.

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