{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/enhancing-multimodal-medical-image","title":"Enhancing Multimodal Medical Image Classification using Cross-Graph Modal Contrastive Learning","arxiv_id":"2410.17494","date":"2024-10-23","proceeding":null,"authors":["Jun-En Ding","Chien-Chin Hsu","Chi-Hsiang Chu","Shuqiang Wang","Feng Liu"],"abstract":"The classification of medical images is a pivotal aspect of disease diagnosis, often enhanced by deep learning techniques. However, traditional approaches typically focus on unimodal medical image data, neglecting the integration of diverse non-image patient data. This paper proposes a novel Cross-Graph Modal Contrastive Learning (CGMCL) framework for multimodal structured data from different data domains to improve medical image classification. The model effectively integrates both image and non-image data by constructing cross-modality graphs and leveraging contrastive learning to align multimodal features in a shared latent space. An inter-modality feature scaling module further optimizes the representation learning process by reducing the gap between heterogeneous modalities. The proposed approach is evaluated on two datasets: a Parkinson's disease (PD) dataset and a public melanoma dataset. Results demonstrate that CGMCL outperforms conventional unimodal methods in accuracy, interpretability, and early disease prediction. Additionally, the method shows superior performance in multi-class melanoma classification. The CGMCL framework provides valuable insights into medical image classification while offering improved disease interpretability and predictive capabilities.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17494v4","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.17494v4.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"enhancing-multimodal-medical-image","repo_url":"https://github.com/Ding1119/CGMCL","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"classification-1","task_name":"Classification"},{"task_slug":"contrastive-learning","task_name":"Contrastive Learning"},{"task_slug":"disease-prediction","task_name":"Disease Prediction"},{"task_slug":"image-classification","task_name":"Image Classification"},{"task_slug":"medical-image-classification","task_name":"Medical Image Classification"},{"task_slug":"representation-learning","task_name":"Representation Learning"},{"task_slug":"image-classification","task_name":"image-classification"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"align","method_name":"ALIGN"},{"method_slug":"contrastive-learning","method_name":"Contrastive Learning"},{"method_slug":"focus","method_name":"Focus"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}