Coronary heart disease prediction method fusing domain-adaptive transfer learning with graph convolutional networks (GCN)

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have achieved impressive results in many medical scenarios involving graph node classification tasks. However, there are difficulties in transfer learning for graph representation learning and graph network models. Most GNNs work only in a single domain and cannot transfer the learned knowledge to other domains. Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) is a high-mortality disease, and there are non-public and significant differences in CHD datasets for current research, which makes it difficult to perform unified transfer learning. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a novel adversarial domain-adaptive multichannel graph convolutional network (DAMGCN) that can perform graph transfer learning on cross-domain tasks to achieve cross-domain medical knowledge transfer on different CHD datasets. First, we use a two-channel GCN model for feature aggregation using local consistency and global consistency. Then, a uniform node representation is generated for different graphs using an attention mechanism. Finally, we provide a domain adversarial module to decrease the discrepancies between the source and target domain classifiers and optimize the three loss functions in order to accomplish source and target domain knowledge transfer. The experimental findings demonstrate that our model performs best on three CHD datasets, and its performance is greatly enhanced by graph transfer learning.