Unlocking Multimodal Integration in EHRs: A Prompt Learning Framework for Language and Time Series Fusion

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13509v1
• Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 07:56:48 GMT
• Title: Unlocking Multimodal Integration in EHRs: A Prompt Learning Framework for Language and Time Series Fusion
• Authors: Shuai Niu, Jing Ma, Hongzhan Lin, Liang Bai, Zhihua Wang, Wei Bi, Yida Xu, Guo Li, Xian Yang,
• Abstract summary: Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance in vision-language tasks, but their application in the medical field remains underexplored. We introduce ProMedTS, a novel self-supervised multimodal framework that employs prompt-guided learning to unify data types. We evaluate ProMedTS on disease diagnosis tasks using real-world datasets, and the results demonstrate that our method consistently outperforms state-of-the-art approaches.
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• Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance in vision-language tasks, but their application in the medical field remains underexplored, particularly for integrating structured time series data with unstructured clinical notes. In clinical practice, dynamic time series data such as lab test results capture critical temporal patterns, while clinical notes provide rich semantic context. Merging these modalities is challenging due to the inherent differences between continuous signals and discrete text. To bridge this gap, we introduce ProMedTS, a novel self-supervised multimodal framework that employs prompt-guided learning to unify these heterogeneous data types. Our approach leverages lightweight anomaly detection to generate anomaly captions that serve as prompts, guiding the encoding of raw time series data into informative embeddings. These embeddings are aligned with textual representations in a shared latent space, preserving fine-grained temporal nuances alongside semantic insights. Furthermore, our framework incorporates tailored self-supervised objectives to enhance both intra- and inter-modal alignment. We evaluate ProMedTS on disease diagnosis tasks using real-world datasets, and the results demonstrate that our method consistently outperforms state-of-the-art approaches.

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