The paper introduces an Early Intervention (EI) framework for multimodal medical image classification that addresses two key challenges: limited exploitation of complementary multimodal information and scarcity of labeled data for Vision Foundation Models (VFMs). EI treats one modality as the target and uses high‑level semantic tokens from other modalities as intervention tokens to guide the target’s embedding early in the process. The authors also propose Mixture of varied‑rank LoRAs (MoR) for efficient VFM adaptation, and demonstrate the method’s effectiveness on retinal, skin, and knee medical image datasets.
arXiv:2606. 28556v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in large language models and vision-language models have enabled reasoning over multimodal data, offering opportunities for clinical applications such as decision support and triaging.
arXiv:2506. 03096v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Contrastive language-image pre-training aligns features of text-image pairs in a common latent space via distinct encoders for each modality.
arXiv:2607. 07673v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medicine is inherently multimodal, requiring clinicians to synthesize information across diverse data streams.
arXiv:2607. 11839v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents a cascaded Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA)-based multimodal fusion framework for action and activity recognition in healthcare-oriented training environments.
arXiv:2606. 06696v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision and language models (VLMs) hold immense promise to transform biomedical imaging workflows, from detecting lesions in chest X-rays to profiling cellular features in microscopy.
arXiv:2608. 15580v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable endoscopic polyp reporting requires integrating quantitative lesion sizing, standardized Paris classification, and clinically meaningful morphological description within a single record.
The paper introduces MIFR, a modality‑invariant and fair representation framework for skin disease classification that jointly processes clinical photographs and dermoscopic images using ViT‑based encoders. It employs a five‑component multi‑objective loss to balance classification accuracy, fairness across skin tones, class alignment, and modality invariance. Experiments on paired and external datasets demonstrate competitive predictive performance and fairness, with t‑SNE visualizations confirming alignment of embeddings from different modalities.
Multimodal fusion learning (MFL) has shown great potential in the medical domain, where we are faced with disparate data modalities such as imaging, clinical records, and omics. However, existing MFL strategies face several major challenges.
arXiv:2607. 15380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Electronic health records combine free-text clinical narratives with structured measurements such as vital signs, laboratory values, and comorbidities.
arXiv:2607. 27289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The promise of multimodal fusion lies in combining complementary sources of evidence, yet more evidence does not always yield a better prediction.
This paper presents a cascaded Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA)-based multimodal fusion framework for action and activity recognition in healthcare-oriented training environments. The proposed architecture combines parameter-efficient modality-specific adaptation with sequential fusion, enabling modalities to be integrated in stages without retraining previously learned components.
arXiv:2609.00272v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most advances in keypoint descriptions address monomodal settings, where image variations arise from viewpoint, illumination, or contrast changes. Mult...