Bridging Cross-Tasks Gap for Cognitive Assessment via Fine-Grained Domain Adaptation

Bridging Cross-Tasks Gap for Cognitive Assessment via Fine-Grained Domain Adaptation

Yingwei Zhang, Yiqiang Chen, Hanchao Yu, Zeping Lv, Qing Li, Xiaodong Yang

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Special track on AI for CompSust and Human well-being. Pages 4330-4337. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2020/597

Discriminating pathologic cognitive decline from the expected decline of normal aging is an important research topic for elderly care and health monitoring. However, most cognitive assessment methods only work when data distributions of the training set and testing set are consistent. Enabling existing cognitive assessment models to adapt to the data in new cognitive assessment tasks is a significant challenge. In this paper, we propose a novel domain adaptation method, namely the Fine-Grained Adaptation Random Forest (FAT), to bridge the cognitive assessment gap when the data distribution is changed. FAT is composed of two essential parts 1) information gain based model evaluation strategy (IGME) and 2) domain adaptation tree growing mechanism (DATG). IGME is used to evaluate every individual tree, and DATG is used to transfer the source model to the target domain. To evaluate the performance of FAT, we conduct experiments in real clinical environments. Experimental results demonstrate that FAT is significantly more accurate and efficient compared with other state-of-the-art methods.
Keywords:
Humans and AI: Cognitive Modeling
Humans and AI: Cognitive Systems
Machine Learning: Transfer, Adaptation, Multi-task Learning
Humans and AI: Human-Computer Interaction