CXR-TFT: Multi-Modal Temporal Fusion Transformer for Predicting Chest X-ray Trajectories

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Auteurs principaux: Arora, Mehak, Ali, Ayman, Wu, Kaiyuan, Davis, Carolyn, Shimazui, Takashi, Alwakeel, Mahmoud, Moas, Victor, Yang, Philip, Esper, Annette, Kamaleswaran, Rishikesan
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author Arora, Mehak
Ali, Ayman
Wu, Kaiyuan
Davis, Carolyn
Shimazui, Takashi
Alwakeel, Mahmoud
Moas, Victor
Yang, Philip
Esper, Annette
Kamaleswaran, Rishikesan
author_facet Arora, Mehak
Ali, Ayman
Wu, Kaiyuan
Davis, Carolyn
Shimazui, Takashi
Alwakeel, Mahmoud
Moas, Victor
Yang, Philip
Esper, Annette
Kamaleswaran, Rishikesan
contents In intensive care units (ICUs), patients with complex clinical conditions require vigilant monitoring and prompt interventions. Chest X-rays (CXRs) are a vital diagnostic tool, providing insights into clinical trajectories, but their irregular acquisition limits their utility. Existing tools for CXR interpretation are constrained by cross-sectional analysis, failing to capture temporal dynamics. To address this, we introduce CXR-TFT, a novel multi-modal framework that integrates temporally sparse CXR imaging and radiology reports with high-frequency clinical data, such as vital signs, laboratory values, and respiratory flow sheets, to predict the trajectory of CXR findings in critically ill patients. CXR-TFT leverages latent embeddings from a vision encoder that are temporally aligned with hourly clinical data through interpolation. A transformer model is then trained to predict CXR embeddings at each hour, conditioned on previous embeddings and clinical measurements. In a retrospective study of 20,000 ICU patients, CXR-TFT demonstrated high accuracy in forecasting abnormal CXR findings up to 12 hours before they became radiographically evident. This predictive capability in clinical data holds significant potential for enhancing the management of time-sensitive conditions like acute respiratory distress syndrome, where early intervention is crucial and diagnoses are often delayed. By providing distinctive temporal resolution in prognostic CXR analysis, CXR-TFT offers actionable 'whole patient' insights that can directly improve clinical outcomes.
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spellingShingle CXR-TFT: Multi-Modal Temporal Fusion Transformer for Predicting Chest X-ray Trajectories
Arora, Mehak
Ali, Ayman
Wu, Kaiyuan
Davis, Carolyn
Shimazui, Takashi
Alwakeel, Mahmoud
Moas, Victor
Yang, Philip
Esper, Annette
Kamaleswaran, Rishikesan
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
In intensive care units (ICUs), patients with complex clinical conditions require vigilant monitoring and prompt interventions. Chest X-rays (CXRs) are a vital diagnostic tool, providing insights into clinical trajectories, but their irregular acquisition limits their utility. Existing tools for CXR interpretation are constrained by cross-sectional analysis, failing to capture temporal dynamics. To address this, we introduce CXR-TFT, a novel multi-modal framework that integrates temporally sparse CXR imaging and radiology reports with high-frequency clinical data, such as vital signs, laboratory values, and respiratory flow sheets, to predict the trajectory of CXR findings in critically ill patients. CXR-TFT leverages latent embeddings from a vision encoder that are temporally aligned with hourly clinical data through interpolation. A transformer model is then trained to predict CXR embeddings at each hour, conditioned on previous embeddings and clinical measurements. In a retrospective study of 20,000 ICU patients, CXR-TFT demonstrated high accuracy in forecasting abnormal CXR findings up to 12 hours before they became radiographically evident. This predictive capability in clinical data holds significant potential for enhancing the management of time-sensitive conditions like acute respiratory distress syndrome, where early intervention is crucial and diagnoses are often delayed. By providing distinctive temporal resolution in prognostic CXR analysis, CXR-TFT offers actionable 'whole patient' insights that can directly improve clinical outcomes.
title CXR-TFT: Multi-Modal Temporal Fusion Transformer for Predicting Chest X-ray Trajectories
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14766