Unsupervised domain adaptation of dynamic extension networks based on class decision boundaries

Abstract

In response to the problems of inaccurate feature alignment, loss of source domain information, imbalanced sample distribution, and biased class decision boundaries in traditional unsupervised domain adaptation methods, this paper proposes a class decision boundary-based dynamic expansion network unsupervised domain adaptation method called CDE-Net. Specifically, our method dynamically expands the autoencoder-based network structure, which can preserve source domain feature information while gradually adapting to the target domain data distribution and learning useful feature information from the target domain. Meanwhile, by minimizing clustering loss and conditional entropy loss, CDE-Net can explore the intrinsic structure of the data and push class decision boundaries away from dense data areas. We experimentally verify our method on three medical image datasets, chest X-rays, intracranial hemorrhage, and mammography, and achieve an average AUC improvement of 25.8% or more compared to non-transfer methods. In addition, we compare our method with previous unsupervised domain adaptation methods, and the experimental results show that our method achieves better classification accuracy and generalization performance.