Mitigating the discrimination of machine learning models has gained
increasing attention in medical image analysis. However, rare works focus on
fair treatments for patients with multiple sensitive demographic ones, which is
a crucial yet challenging problem for real-world clinical applications. In this
paper, we propose a novel method for fair representation learning with respect
to multi-sensitive attributes. We pursue the independence between target and
multi-sensitive representations by achieving orthogonality in the
representation space. Concretely, we enforce the column space orthogonality by
keeping target information on the complement of a low-rank sensitive space.
Furthermore, in the row space, we encourage feature dimensions between target
and sensitive representations to be orthogonal. The effectiveness of the
proposed method is demonstrated with extensive experiments on the CheXpert
dataset. To our best knowledge, this is the first work to mitigate unfairness
with respect to multiple sensitive attributes in the field of medical imaging