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Main Authors: Yao, Wenfang, Liu, Chen, Yin, Kejing, Cheung, William K., Qin, Jing
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17918
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author Yao, Wenfang
Liu, Chen
Yin, Kejing
Cheung, William K.
Qin, Jing
author_facet Yao, Wenfang
Liu, Chen
Yin, Kejing
Cheung, William K.
Qin, Jing
contents Integrating multi-modal clinical data, such as electronic health records (EHR) and chest X-ray images (CXR), is particularly beneficial for clinical prediction tasks. However, in a temporal setting, multi-modal data are often inherently asynchronous. EHR can be continuously collected but CXR is generally taken with a much longer interval due to its high cost and radiation dose. When clinical prediction is needed, the last available CXR image might have been outdated, leading to suboptimal predictions. To address this challenge, we propose DDL-CXR, a method that dynamically generates an up-to-date latent representation of the individualized CXR images. Our approach leverages latent diffusion models for patient-specific generation strategically conditioned on a previous CXR image and EHR time series, providing information regarding anatomical structures and disease progressions, respectively. In this way, the interaction across modalities could be better captured by the latent CXR generation process, ultimately improving the prediction performance. Experiments using MIMIC datasets show that the proposed model could effectively address asynchronicity in multimodal fusion and consistently outperform existing methods.
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spellingShingle Addressing Asynchronicity in Clinical Multimodal Fusion via Individualized Chest X-ray Generation
Yao, Wenfang
Liu, Chen
Yin, Kejing
Cheung, William K.
Qin, Jing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Integrating multi-modal clinical data, such as electronic health records (EHR) and chest X-ray images (CXR), is particularly beneficial for clinical prediction tasks. However, in a temporal setting, multi-modal data are often inherently asynchronous. EHR can be continuously collected but CXR is generally taken with a much longer interval due to its high cost and radiation dose. When clinical prediction is needed, the last available CXR image might have been outdated, leading to suboptimal predictions. To address this challenge, we propose DDL-CXR, a method that dynamically generates an up-to-date latent representation of the individualized CXR images. Our approach leverages latent diffusion models for patient-specific generation strategically conditioned on a previous CXR image and EHR time series, providing information regarding anatomical structures and disease progressions, respectively. In this way, the interaction across modalities could be better captured by the latent CXR generation process, ultimately improving the prediction performance. Experiments using MIMIC datasets show that the proposed model could effectively address asynchronicity in multimodal fusion and consistently outperform existing methods.
title Addressing Asynchronicity in Clinical Multimodal Fusion via Individualized Chest X-ray Generation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17918