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Domain Incremental Learning for Pandemic-Resilient Chest X-Ray Analysis

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-05-19 v1 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Abstract

Deep learning models achieved high accuracy in pneumonia detection from chest X-rays. However, their generalization across clinical domains remains limited due to variations in imaging devices, acquisition protocols, and institutional conditions. This study introduces a replay-based domain-incremental continual learning designed to enable continual adaptation to cross-domain variations without catastrophic forgetting. The proposed method incorporates a class-aware balanced replay to maintain balanced class representation within a constrained memory and a class-aware loss to dynamically reweight class imbalance during training. Experiments conducted on a domain-shifted PneumoniaMNIST dataset consisting of five simulated domains demonstrate that the proposed method achieves an average accuracy of 88.66%, outperforming Experience Replay, Fine-Tuning, and Joint Training baselines. These findings highlight the efficacy of the proposed approach in achieving robust and consistent pneumonia detection across clinical environment variations.

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@article{arxiv.2605.17729,
  title  = {Domain Incremental Learning for Pandemic-Resilient Chest X-Ray Analysis},
  author = {Danu Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.17729},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Published in Korea Software Congress (2025)

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