Few-shot Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Multi-modal Cardiac Image Segmentation
This addresses the challenge of adapting medical image segmentation models to new domains with limited data, which is incremental as it extends existing UDA methods to a more constrained scenario.
The paper tackles the problem of unsupervised domain adaptation for multi-modal cardiac image segmentation when only one unlabeled target patient sample is available, achieving a Dice score improvement of 0.33 compared to the baseline.
Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods intend to reduce the gap between source and target domains by using unlabeled target domain and labeled source domain data, however, in the medical domain, target domain data may not always be easily available, and acquiring new samples is generally time-consuming. This restricts the development of UDA methods for new domains. In this paper, we explore the potential of UDA in a more challenging while realistic scenario where only one unlabeled target patient sample is available. We call it Few-shot Unsupervised Domain adaptation (FUDA). We first generate target-style images from source images and explore diverse target styles from a single target patient with Random Adaptive Instance Normalization (RAIN). Then, a segmentation network is trained in a supervised manner with the generated target images. Our experiments demonstrate that FUDA improves the segmentation performance by 0.33 of Dice score on the target domain compared with the baseline, and it also gives 0.28 of Dice score improvement in a more rigorous one-shot setting. Our code is available at \url{https://github.com/MingxuanGu/Few-shot-UDA}.