Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning for Medical Time Series Classification
2024 (English)In: IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics, ISSN 2168-2194, E-ISSN 2168-2208, Vol. 28, no 4, p. 1872-1882Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Continuously analyzing medical time series as new classes emerge is meaningful for health monitoring and medical decision-making. Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) explores the classification of few-shot new classes without forgetting old classes. However, little of the existing research on FSCIL focuses on medical time series classification, which is more challenging to learn due to its large intra-class variability. In this paper, we propose a framework, the Meta self-Attention Prototype Incrementer (MAPIC) to address these problems. MAPIC contains three main modules: an embedding encoder for feature extraction, a prototype enhancement module for increasing inter-class variation, and a distance-based classifier for reducing intra-class variation. To mitigate catastrophic forgetting, MAPIC adopts a parameter protection strategy in which the parameters of the embedding encoder module are frozen at incremental stages after being trained in the base stage. The prototype enhancement module is proposed to enhance the expressiveness of prototypes by perceiving inter-class relations using a self-attention mechanism. We design a composite loss function containing the sample classification loss, the prototype non-overlapping loss, and the knowledge distillation loss, which work together to reduce intra-class variations and resist catastrophic forgetting. Experimental results on three different time series datasets show that MAPIC significantly outperforms state-of-the-art approaches by 27.99%, 18.4%, and 3.95%, respectively. IEEE
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Piscataway, N.J.: IEEE, 2024. Vol. 28, no 4, p. 1872-1882
Keywords [en]
Brain modeling, Few-shot class-incremental learning, Health monitoring, Medical decision-making, Medical diagnostic imaging, Medical time series classification, Power capacitors, Prototypes, Task analysis, Time series analysis, Training
National Category
Natural Language Processing
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-51964DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2023.3247861ISI: 001197865400008Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85149384773OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-51964DiVA, id: diva2:1811496
2023-11-132023-11-132025-02-07Bibliographically approved