arXiv Machine Learning

Tensor-based Fusion of Multi-modal Data for Predicting Cancer Risk Levels

The paper introduces an unsupervised machine learning framework that fuses heterogeneous genomic and clinical data using tensor decomposition and clustering to predict cancer risk levels. By extracting latent, biologically meaningful features through tensor decomposition, the approach outperforms unimodal feature sets. Experiments on LinkedOmics data of 11,158 patients across 32 cancer types show that the tSVD+GMM configuration consistently achieves superior performance on clinical benchmarks such as tumor purity, pathological stage, and survival outcomes.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

Real-World Multi-Modal and Longitudinal Lung Cancer Dataset

The paper presents a newly curated, multi-center, multi-modal, and longitudinal lung cancer dataset comprising 1,365 patients with whole-slide images, CT scans, PET scans, structured clinical data, transcriptomics, and follow-up information. The dataset features substantial, non-uniform missingness across modalities, making it ideal for evaluating robust multi-modal fusion strategies. Benchmarks on 12‑month overall survival, disease‑specific survival, and longitudinal hazard prediction demonstrate that integrating complementary modalities consistently outperforms uni-modal approaches, even under severe missing data.

By Rita Cordeiro Mendes, Maria Rita Fonseca Verdelho, Carlos Santiago, Catarina Barata
arXiv AI
Jun 17

Probing, Fusion, and Trustworthiness: A Systematic Evaluation of Foundation Model Representations for Multimodal Cancer Analysis

arXiv:2606. 17115v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models (FMs) have emerged as powerful representation extractors for medical data, yet their generalizability to datasets under distribution shift remains underexplored.

By Jingyu Hu, Giuseppe Tripodi, Reed Naidoo, Sarah F. McGough, Tapabrata Chakraborti
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

Interpretable Graph Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for Multi-Cancer Classification and Biomarker Identification using Multi-Omics Data

arXiv:2503. 22939v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The integration of heterogeneous multi-omics datasets at a systems level remains a central challenge for developing analytical and computational models in precision cancer diagnostics.

By Fadi Alharbi, Nishant Budhiraja, Aleksandar Vakanski, Boyu Zhang, Murtada K. Elbashir, Harshith Guduru, Mohanad Mohammed
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 4

Coupled Tensor-Tensor Completion Method with Applications in Drug Repurposing

The paper introduces Coupled Tensor‑Tensor Completion (CTTC), a new framework that incorporates side information in tensor form to enhance tensor completion tasks. CTTC leverages hidden connections among multimodal tensors and is grounded in distance metric learning and group theory. Experiments on the DTD and LINCS datasets show that CTTC outperforms existing methods such as HaLRTC, CTRC, Cell, and NTDDR in both runtime and root‑sum‑of‑squares error for drug effect prediction.

By Maryam Bagherian, Albert Hung, Ivo Dinov, Joshua Welch
arXiv AI
Aug 17

CMCNet: Aligning Ultrasound Image Embeddings with Textual TI-RADS Representations for Fine-Grained Thyroid Classification

arXiv:2608. 13939v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ultrasound is the primary imaging modality for assessing thyroid nodules, and the ACR TI-RADS framework standardizes diagnosis through five ultrasound feature categories that are aggregated into five risk levels (TR1-TR5).

By Bingxin Yu, Xueli Wang, Jerry Zhou, Wenyan Wang, Li Wen, Lan Huang, Xin Feng, Fengfeng Zhou, Kewei Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

TIER-MoE: Trust-Informed Expert Routing via Conditional Modality Risk for Multimodal Fusion in Biomedical Classification

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.

By Yu Chang, Anzhe Cheng, Chenwei Wu, Zhuoran Wang, Jiahao Chen, Tamoghna Chattopadhyay, Sophia I. Thomopoulos, Paul M. Thompson, Liyue Shen, Paul Bogdan