TABLE 5.

Impact of model components assessed through ablation on IU X-ray and VinDr-CXR datasets.

Model	IU X-ray dataset				VinDr-CXR dataset
	Accuracy	Recall	F1 score	AUC	Accuracy	Recall	F1 score	AUC
w./o. Disentangled Temporal Representation	88.10 $\pm$ 0.02	85.37 $\pm$ 0.03	86.14 $\pm$ 0.02	91.34 $\pm$ 0.03	86.20 $\pm$ 0.02	83.77 $\pm$ 0.02	84.51 $\pm$ 0.03	89.94 $\pm$ 0.02
w./o. Ontology-Aware Alignment	89.33 $\pm$ 0.03	86.02 $\pm$ 0.02	86.83 $\pm$ 0.03	91.92 $\pm$ 0.02	87.51 $\pm$ 0.03	84.60 $\pm$ 0.02	85.91 $\pm$ 0.02	90.87 $\pm$ 0.03
w./o. Causal-Aware Refinement	89.01 $\pm$ 0.02	86.78 $\pm$ 0.02	87.09 $\pm$ 0.03	92.40 $\pm$ 0.02	87.92 $\pm$ 0.02	85.17 $\pm$ 0.02	86.25 $\pm$ 0.03	91.32 $\pm$ 0.02
Ours	90.42 $\pm$ 0.02	87.56 $\pm$ 0.02	88.33 $\pm$ 0.03	92.84 $\pm$ 0.02	88.73 $\pm$ 0.02	85.91 $\pm$ 0.02	86.67 $\pm$ 0.03	91.03 $\pm$ 0.02

The values in bold are the best values.