Unsupervised domain adaptation for medical image segmentation using adaptogen-perturbation.

Abstract

Domains shift originated from differences in devices or patients in the medical field, poses a significant challenge when applying pre-trained models to clinical applications. To tackle this challenge, domain adaptation methods have been explored. However, most existing methods are designed for a single target domain adaptation or require sharing all target domain data for adaptation, which is infeasible in the medical field due to privacy issues. In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised multi-target domain adaptation method without requiring data sharing. To this end, we introduce an additional signal, termed Adaptogen-Perturbation (AP) optimized to bridge the gap between the source and target domains. The optimized AP is injected into the latent feature and facilitates the adaptation of the pre-trained model to the target domain. Moreover, we propose a Spectral/Geometric Consistency learning framework to optimize the AP in an unsupervised manner. This promotes consistent predictions across two types of transformations: geometric and frequency-space spectral transformations, enhancing robustness to both variations. Extensive experiments with multiple medical segmentation datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of APs.