Fusion of imaging and non-imaging data for disease trajectory prediction for coronavirus disease 2019 patients.
Amara TariqSiyi TangHifza SakhiLeo Anthony CeliJanice M NewsomeDaniel L RubinHari M TrivediJudy Wawira GichoyaImon BanerjeePublished in: Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.) (2023)
Our study signifies the importance of the fusion of multiple data modalities for the accurate prediction of clinical trajectories. The proposed graph structure can model relationships between patients based on non-imaging EHR data, and graph convolutional networks can fuse this relationship information with imaging data to effectively predict future disease trajectory more effectively than models employing only imaging or non-imaging data. Our graph-based fusion modeling frameworks can be easily extended to other prediction tasks to efficiently combine imaging data with non-imaging clinical data.