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Specifically, we introduce the cross-attention mechanism to learn the domain-invariant features and develop a cross-attention transformer-based encoder to align the two different cancer domains. Meanwhile, to preserve the target-specific knowledge, we employ multiple domain classifiers to enforce the network to extract more discriminative target features. In addition, we employ two independent convolutional neural network (CNN) decoders to compensate for the lack of spatial inductive bias in the pure transformer and generate accurate dose maps for both domains. Furthermore, to enhance the performance, two additional losses, i.e. a knowledge distillation loss (KDL) and a domain classification loss (DCL), are incorporated to transfer the domain-invariant features while preserving domain-specific information. Experimental results on a rectal cancer dataset and a cervical cancer dataset have demonstrated that our method achieves the best quantitative results with [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], and HI of 1.446, 1.231, and 0.082, respectively, and outperforms other methods in terms of qualitative assessment. <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1142\/s0129065723500570","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,28]],"date-time":"2023-08-28T07:59:15Z","timestamp":1693209555000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Dose Prediction via Cross-Attention Transformer and Target-Specific Knowledge Preservation"],"prefix":"10.1142","volume":"33","author":[{"given":"Jiaqi","family":"Cui","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, P. R. 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