Leveraging Pathology Co-occurrence for Test-Time Adaptation in Chest X-Ray Diagnosis
Medical imaging models often degrade when deployed at new clinical sites due to differences in imaging equipment, protocols, and patient populations. Test-time adaptation (TTA) addresses this by updating a pretrained model using only unlabeled target data, without access to source data. However, existing TTA methods were designed for single-label classification on natural image benchmarks, minimizing entropy uniformly across all samples without considering label dependencies. This overlooks a key property of multi-label medical imaging: pathologies do not occur independently but exhibit structured co-occurrence patterns. In this work, we propose Co-occurrence Weighted Adaptation (CoWA), which leverages disease co-occurrence patterns as a reliability signal for adaptation. CoWA estimates label co-occurrence structure from model predictions and downweights samples that deviate from expected patterns, enabling adaptation to rely more on consistent predictions while reducing the impact of noisy ones. We evaluate CoWA on chest X-ray benchmarks under domain shifts and demonstrate consistent improvements over established baselines.
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