Hypergraph and cross-attention-based unsupervised domain adaptation framework for cross-domain myocardial infarction localization

Solving individual differences between subjects is critical for the promotion of electrocardiogram (ECG) classification algorithms in the intelligent health monitoring industry. Popular inter-subject-based solutions usually require the manual labeling of heartbeats and frequent updating of the model for new subjects. To track these problems, we propose a hypergraph and cross-attention-based unsupervised domain adaptation (HGCA-UDA) framework for the myocardial infarction localization. Specifically, we first build a hypergraph-based dual-channel network, that can simultaneously learn specific feature representations from an ECG lead and disease category levels for samples from different domains. We then design a cross-attention module to align cross-domain locally similar samples. Subsequently, a domain alignment strategy based on the Wasserstein distance is proposed to align the global edge feature distribution. Finally, a pseudo-label generation scheme is proposed to further align fine-grained category information. We conduct extensive experiments on two public benchmark datasets (the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and PTB_XL database), and the results show that the proposed HGCR-UDA (with unlabeled patients) achieves comparable results compared with state-of-the-art inter-patient-based methods (with labeled patients) and has excellent applications prospects in the field of intelligent health monitoring.