Deep Multi-modal Breast Cancer Detection Network

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Main Authors: Shah, Noor Ul Huda, Hussain, Tanveer, Ahmed, Amr, Liu, Yonghuai, Ali, Usman, Behera, Ardhendu
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Published: 2025
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author Shah, Noor Ul Huda
Hussain, Tanveer
Ahmed, Amr
Liu, Yonghuai
Ali, Usman
Behera, Ardhendu
author_facet Shah, Noor Ul Huda
Hussain, Tanveer
Ahmed, Amr
Liu, Yonghuai
Ali, Usman
Behera, Ardhendu
contents Automated breast cancer detection via computer vision techniques is challenging due to the complex nature of breast tissue, the subtle appearance of cancerous lesions, and variations in breast density. Mainstream techniques primarily focus on visual cues, overlooking complementary patient-specific textual features that are equally important and can enhance diagnostic accuracy. To address this gap, we introduce Multi-modal Cancer Detection Network (MMDCNet) that integrates visual cues with clinical data to improve breast cancer detection. Our approach processes medical images using computer vision techniques while structured patient metadata patterns are learned through a custom fully connected network. The extracted features are fused to form a comprehensive representation, allowing the model to leverage both visual and clinical information. The final classifier is trained based on the joint features embedding space of visual and clinical cues and experiments prove enhanced performance, improving accuracy from 79.38\% to 90.87\% on a Mini-DDSM dataset. Additionally, our approach achieves 97.05\% accuracy on an image-only dataset, highlighting the robustness and effectiveness of visual feature extraction. These findings emphasise the potential of multi-modal learning in medical diagnostics, paving the way for future research on optimising data integration strategies and refining AI-driven clinical decision support systems.
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spellingShingle Deep Multi-modal Breast Cancer Detection Network
Shah, Noor Ul Huda
Hussain, Tanveer
Ahmed, Amr
Liu, Yonghuai
Ali, Usman
Behera, Ardhendu
Quantitative Methods
Automated breast cancer detection via computer vision techniques is challenging due to the complex nature of breast tissue, the subtle appearance of cancerous lesions, and variations in breast density. Mainstream techniques primarily focus on visual cues, overlooking complementary patient-specific textual features that are equally important and can enhance diagnostic accuracy. To address this gap, we introduce Multi-modal Cancer Detection Network (MMDCNet) that integrates visual cues with clinical data to improve breast cancer detection. Our approach processes medical images using computer vision techniques while structured patient metadata patterns are learned through a custom fully connected network. The extracted features are fused to form a comprehensive representation, allowing the model to leverage both visual and clinical information. The final classifier is trained based on the joint features embedding space of visual and clinical cues and experiments prove enhanced performance, improving accuracy from 79.38\% to 90.87\% on a Mini-DDSM dataset. Additionally, our approach achieves 97.05\% accuracy on an image-only dataset, highlighting the robustness and effectiveness of visual feature extraction. These findings emphasise the potential of multi-modal learning in medical diagnostics, paving the way for future research on optimising data integration strategies and refining AI-driven clinical decision support systems.
title Deep Multi-modal Breast Cancer Detection Network
topic Quantitative Methods
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16954