Cascaded Multi-Modal Mixing Transformers for Alzheimer's Disease Classification with Incomplete Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00255v2
• Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2023 08:15:41 GMT
• Title: Cascaded Multi-Modal Mixing Transformers for Alzheimer's Disease Classification with Incomplete Data
• Authors: Linfeng Liu, Siyu Liu, Lu Zhang, Xuan Vinh To, Fatima Nasrallah, Shekhar S. Chandra
• Abstract summary: Multi-Modal Mixing Transformer (3MAT) is a disease classification transformer that not only leverages multi-modal data but also handles missing data scenarios. We propose a novel modality dropout mechanism to ensure an unprecedented level of modality independence and robustness to handle missing data scenarios.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Accurate medical classification requires a large number of multi-modal data, and in many cases, different feature types. Previous studies have shown promising results when using multi-modal data, outperforming single-modality models when classifying diseases such as Alzheimer's Disease (AD). However, those models are usually not flexible enough to handle missing modalities. Currently, the most common workaround is discarding samples with missing modalities which leads to considerable data under-utilization. Adding to the fact that labeled medical images are already scarce, the performance of data-driven methods like deep learning can be severely hampered. Therefore, a multi-modal method that can handle missing data in various clinical settings is highly desirable. In this paper, we present Multi-Modal Mixing Transformer (3MAT), a disease classification transformer that not only leverages multi-modal data but also handles missing data scenarios. In this work, we test 3MT for AD and Cognitively normal (CN) classification and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) conversion prediction to progressive MCI (pMCI) or stable MCI (sMCI) using clinical and neuroimaging data. The model uses a novel Cascaded Modality Transformer architecture with cross-attention to incorporate multi-modal information for more informed predictions. We propose a novel modality dropout mechanism to ensure an unprecedented level of modality independence and robustness to handle missing data scenarios. The result is a versatile network that enables the mixing of arbitrary numbers of modalities with different feature types and also ensures full data utilization missing data scenarios. The model is trained and evaluated on the ADNI dataset with the SOTRA performance and further evaluated with the AIBL dataset with missing data.

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