解决帕金森与渐冻症语音分类中的跨域偏移与性别不公平问题
Fairness-Aware Partial-label Domain Adaptation for Voice Classification of Parkinson's and ALS
- 融合风格迁移与条件对抗对齐,应对部分标签重叠的跨队列挑战
- 在四个不同设备数据集上实现最优外推性能,且性别差异显著降低
- 首个兼顾部分标签不匹配与公平性的统一三分类语音诊断框架
基于语音的数字生物标志物可实现帕金森病(PD)和肌萎缩侧索硬化症(ALS)的大规模、非侵入式筛查与监测。然而,模型在跨设备或跨队列场景下常因域偏移而失效,尤其在部分标签不匹配情形下——数据集间疾病标签不一致且类别空间仅部分重叠时更为严峻。此外,语音模型可能利用性别线索,导致部署于异质队列时出现性别相关不公平。为此,我们提出一种混合框架,实现从部分重叠队列中统一进行健康/帕金森/渐冻症三分类的跨域语音识别。方法结合基于风格的域泛化与面向部分标签设置的条件对抗对齐,减少负向迁移;额外引入对抗性性别分支,促进性别不变表征。我们在四个异构持续音数据集上进行全面评估,覆盖不同采集环境与设备,在域泛化与无监督域适应两种协议下对比十二种先进方法,并通过三项消融实验验证。该工作首次建立跨队列基准与端到端自适应框架,支持部分标签不匹配与公平性约束下的统一语音分类。所有测试中,本方法在外部泛化性能上始终领先,且性别偏差显著降低,无其他方法在外部性能上取得统计显著提升。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Voice-based digital biomarkers can enable scalable, non-invasive screening and monitoring of Parkinson's disease (PD) and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). However, models trained on one cohort or device often fail on new acquisition settings due to cross-device and cross-cohort domain shift. This challenge is amplified in real-world scenarios with partial-label mismatch, where datasets may contain different disease labels and only partially overlap in class space. In addition, voice-based models may exploit demographic cues, raising concerns about gender-related unfairness, particularly when deployed across heterogeneous cohorts. To tackle these challenges, we propose a hybrid framework for unified three-class (healthy/PD/ALS) cross-domain voice classification from partially overlapping cohorts. The method combines style-based domain generalization with conditional adversarial alignment tailored to partial-label settings, reducing negative transfer. An additional adversarial gender branch promotes gender-invariant representations. We conduct a comprehensive evaluation across four heterogeneous sustained-vowel datasets, spanning distinct acquisition settings and devices, under both domain generalization and unsupervised domain adaptation protocols. The proposed approach is compared against twelve state-of-the-art machine learning and deep learning methods, and further evaluated through three targeted ablations, providing the first cross-cohort benchmark and end-to-end domain-adaptive framework for unified healthy/PD/ALS voice classification under partial-label mismatch and fairness constraints. Across all experimental settings, our method consistently achieves the best external generalization over the considered evaluation metrics, while maintaining reduced gender disparities. Notably, no competing method shows statistically significant gains in external performance.
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