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Metric Learning on Healthcare Data with Incomplete Modalities

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Suo, Qiuling, Zhong, Weida, Ma, Fenglong, Yuan, Ye, Gao, Jing, Zhang, Aidong·2019·Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Utilizing multiple modalities to learn a good distance metric is of vital importance for various clinical applications. However, it is common that modalities are incomplete for some patients due to various technical and practical reasons in healthcare datasets. Existing metric learning methods cannot directly learn the distance metric on such data with missing modalities. Nevertheless, the incomplete data contains valuable information to characterize patient similarity and modality relationships, and they should not be ignored during the learning process. To tackle the aforementioned challenges, we propose a metric learning framework to perform missing modality completion and multi-modal metric learning simultaneously. Employing the generative adversarial networks, we incorporate both complete and incomplete data to learn the mapping relationship between modalities. After completing the missing modalities, we use the nonlinear representations extracted by the discriminator to learn the distance metric among patients. Through jointly training the adversarial generation part and metric learning, the similarity among patients can be learned on data with missing modalities. Experimental results show that the proposed framework learns more accurate distance metric on real-world healthcare datasets with incomplete modalities, comparing with the state-of-the-art approaches. Meanwhile, the quality of the generated modalities can be preserved.

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  • Real-world multimodal data are often imperfect because some modalities are missing.

    “Multimodal data collected from the real world are often imperfect due to missing modalities.”

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Authors
Suo, Q., Zhong, W., Ma, F., Yuan, Y., Gao, J., & Zhang, A.
Affiliations
  • University at Buffalo, State University of New York (US)
  • Beijing University of Technology (CN)
  • University of Virginia (US)
Venue
Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Published
2019-08
Pages
3534-3540
OpenAlex
W2965487497
Cited by
46
References
25
Citations by year
2025: 17 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 5
FWCI
1.24
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Locations
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Science Foundation (1553411)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning in Healthcare
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
Keywords
metric learning, incomplete modalities, generative adversarial networks, patient similarity, health data

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