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.
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By Md Zubair, Hao Zheng, Grayson W. Armstrong, Lucy Q. Shen, Gabriela Wilson, Yu Tian, Xingquan Zhu
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By Wajih ul Islam, Muhammad Yaqoob, Javed Ali Khan, Volker Steuber
arXiv:2607. 09982v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electronic health record (EHR) data are inherently multimodal, and leveraging multiple modalities can improve predictive performance.
By Nikkie Hooman, Zhongjie Wu, Eric C. Larson, Mehak Gupta
arXiv:2606. 15038v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate time-to-event (TTE) prediction from multimodal clinical data remains challenging due to modality imbalance and distribution shift.
By Zhemin Zhang, Weijie Chen, David Le, Amara Tariq, Alex Wallace, Matthew Stib, Juan Maria Farina, Chadi Ayoub, Reza Arsanjani, Imon Banerjee
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:2607. 05019v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In multimodal classification, late-fusion approaches classify concatenated modality-specific features extracted by unimodal neural networks.
By Ilya Burenko, Dmitry Vetrov
arXiv:2608. 02769v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal supervised learning seeks to leverage multiple heterogeneous data sources to improve predictive performance.
By Sagnik Nandy, Samriddha Lahiry, Pragya Sur, Subhabrata Sen
arXiv:2607. 20742v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal learning is a robust approach to improve predictive performance in applications such as medical prognosis.
By Mohammad Raahemi, Ali Sekhavati, Alireza Maleki, Hamid Nasiri
arXiv:2606. 16484v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) hold great potential for medicine, as they inherit knowledge from LLM and allow multiple data modalities to be integrated, analysed and interpreted in natural language.
By Zhiyun Song, Che Liu, Tian Xia, Avinash Kori, Wenjia Bai
arXiv:2509. 11924v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal learning has attracted much attention in recent years due to its ability to effectively utilize data features from a variety of different modalities.
By Bo Cao, Fan Yu, Mengmeng Feng, SenHao Zhang, Xin Meng, Yue Zhang, Zhen Qian, Jie Lu
arXiv:2403. 14926v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Electronic health record (EHR) systems capture a wealth of multimodal clinical data, encompassing both structured clinical codes and unstructured clinical notes.
By Tianxi Cai, Feiqing Huang, Ryumei Nakada, Linjun Zhang, Doudou Zhou