无需标签即可自动选出最适合医疗影像的无监督域适应算法与参数。
Towards Practical Algorithm Selection for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation in Medical Imaging

- 通过多信号提名模型,构建无标签参考预测进行算法选择。
- 在7个临床场景下优于现有方法,跨不同算法池表现稳定。
- 适合希望快速部署可靠UADA方案的临床研究者使用。
目前存在大量无监督域适应(UDA)算法,但在临床实践中,如何为特定目标域选择最优算法及超参数仍不明确,因目标域无标签无法直接评估。本文提出一种无需标签的准则,联合选择算法与超参数。给定多个算法、不同超参数训练的候选模型池,该方法通过与无标签参考预测的共识度评分,选取得分最高的模型部署。参考预测在两级构建:第一级利用多种无标签选择信号,每类算法提名一个模型;第二级将各算法提名模型结果聚合,形成每个无标签目标样本的参考预测。最终选择与参考预测最一致的候选模型。在4个脑MRI和4个胸部X光数据集上,7个临床相关迁移场景的实验表明,本方法性能优于其他方法,且在不同算法池中均保持有效性。该工作推动了临床部署中无标签算法选择的实用化。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Numerous unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) algorithms exist, but for clinical practice, selecting the best-suited one along with proper hyperparameters often remains unclear, as the unlabeled deployment (target) domain prevents direct evaluation. We propose a label-free criterion that jointly selects the algorithm and hyperparameters for UDA. Given a pool of candidate models from multiple algorithms trained with different hyperparameters, our approach scores each candidate against an agreement reference, and selects the one with the highest score. The agreement reference is constructed in two levels without using target labels. First, we leverage multiple label-free selection signals, using each to nominate a model within every algorithm. Second, the nominated models are aggregated across algorithms to form a reference prediction for each unlabeled target sample. The candidate whose predictions agree most with this reference is then selected for deployment. Experimental results on four brain MRI and four chest X-ray datasets across seven clinically relevant transfer scenarios show that our method achieves better selection performance than other methods and remains effective across different algorithm pools. Our approach takes a step towards practical, label-free algorithm selection for clinical deployment of UDA.
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