arXiv AI

Reading the Whole Heart: Latent-Attention Masked Autoencoders for Multimodal Cardiac Representation Learning

The paper introduces Latent-Attention Masked Autoencoder (LAMAE), a multimodal masked autoencoder that learns patient-level representations by exchanging information directly in the latent space through a shared latent-attention module. LAMAE integrates complementary modalities—electrocardiogram, echocardiography, and chest X-rays—within a study-view-entity hierarchy, enabling aggregation of variable observations and handling missing modalities. Pretraining on over 500,000 MIMIC-IV hospital stays, LAMAE outperforms modality-specific pretraining and strong contrastive and vision-language baselines on multimodal hospital-stay tasks such as in-hospital mortality, ICD-10 and DRG coding, and length of stay, while remaining competitive on unimodal tasks.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 27

Autoregressive EHR Foundation Models with Multimodal Inputs

arXiv:2607. 22264v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive foundation models trained on tokenized electronic health records (EHRs) can support zero-shot clinical prediction, yet most operate on structured event codes alone, and do not incorporate multiple modalities in a principled way.

By Yuxuan Liu, Joshua Placidi, Jinpei Han, Alfred John Balston, Marek Rei, A. Aldo Faisal
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 14

CardioState-JEPA: Delay-Aware Cross-Modal Learning of a Shared Cardiac Representation

arXiv:2608. 12944v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electrocardiography (ECG), photoplethysmography (PPG), and phonocardiography (PCG) provide complementary views of the same cardiac cycle, yet existing cardiac foundation models are trained for a single sensing modality, leaving the shared physiology across sensors unexploited.

By Hamza Shafiq, Hung Manh Pham, Bin Zhu, Pan Zhou, Jun Hu, Aaqib Saeed
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 8

InfiMed2: A Generalist Medical Multimodal Foundation Model from Contextual Evidence and Stability-Aware Supervision

arXiv:2609.34798v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent medical multimodal models have benefited from larger corpora, broader modality coverage, and stronger reasoning-oriented training, yet effec...

By Guanghao Zhu, Zeyu Liu, Zhitian Hou, Pengkai Wang, Zhijie Sang, Shuo Cai, Yang Yu, Yuanyi Wang, Yanggan Gu, Congkai Xie, Jianmin Wu, Hongxia Yang
arXiv AI
Jun 30

Primary ICD Category Prediction using LLM-based Probing

arXiv:2606. 28798v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Objective: ICD codes are central to reimbursement, research, and population health surveillance, yet automated coding systems often struggle to integrate diagnostic signals from both clinical narratives and structured electronic health record (EHR) variables.

By Chengyuan Liu, Xinyue Zhang, Yao Li, Guanting Chen
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 1

Learning Where to Look: Anatomical Grounding and Guided Attention for Cardiac MRI Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2609.39899v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) enables assessment of cardiac anatomy, ventricular function, and myocardial tissue characteristics. Clinicians...

By Bangwei Guo, Xiao Chen, Boris Mailhe, Jia Yao, Yiqing Wang, Ankush Mukherjee, Yikang Liu, Zheyuan Zhang, Hang Yu, Terrence Chen, Shanhui Sun