Editorial: Recent advances in multimodal artificial intelligence for disease diagnosis, prognosis, and prevention

Abstract

First paragraph: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has gained huge attention in computer-aided decision-making in the healthcare domain. Many novel AI methods have been developed for disease diagnosis and prognosis which may support in the prevention of disease. Most diseases can be cured early and managed better if timely diagnosis is made. The AI models can aid clinical diagnosis; thus, they make the processes more efficient by reducing the workload of physicians, nurses, radiologists, and others. However, the majority of AI methods rely on the use of single-modality data. For example, brain tumor detection uses brain MRI, skin lesion detection uses skin pathology images, and lung cancer detection uses lung CT or x-ray imaging (1). Single-modality AI models lack the much-needed integration of complex features available from different modality data, such as electronic health records (EHR), unstructured clinical notes, and different medical imaging modalities– otherwise form the backbone of clinical decision-making.