Missing-modality enabled multi-modal fusion architecture for medical data.

Journal: Journal of biomedical informatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Fusion of multi-modal data can improve the performance of deep learning models. However, missing modalities are common in medical data due to patient specificity, which is detrimental to the performance of multi-modal models in applications. Therefore, it is critical to adapt the models to missing modalities.

Authors

  • Muyu Wang
    School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, No.10, Xitoutiao, You An Men, Fengtai District, Beijing 100069, China; Beijing Key Laboratory of Fundamental Research on Biomechanics in Clinical Application, Capital Medical University, No.10, Xitoutiao, You An Men, Fengtai District, Beijing 100069, China. Electronic address: whwangmy@ccmu.edu.cn.
  • Shiyu Fan
    Department of Radiology, The First People's Hospital of Kashi (Kashgar) Prefecture, China.
  • Yichen Li
    School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, No.10, Xitoutiao, You An Men, Fengtai District, Beijing 100069, China; Beijing Key Laboratory of Fundamental Research on Biomechanics in Clinical Application, Capital Medical University, No.10, Xitoutiao, You An Men, Fengtai District, Beijing 100069, China.
  • Zhongrang Xie
    School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, No.10, Xitoutiao, You An Men, Fengtai District, Beijing 100069, China; Beijing Key Laboratory of Fundamental Research on Biomechanics in Clinical Application, Capital Medical University, No.10, Xitoutiao, You An Men, Fengtai District, Beijing 100069, China.
  • Hui Chen
    Xiangyang Central HospitalAffiliated Hospital of Hubei University of Arts and Science Xiangyang 441000 China.