--> Computer Science > Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition arXiv:2609.22271 (cs) [Submitted on 10 Sep 2026] Title: Enabling Vision and Cross-Modal Learning for Multimodal Stroke Recurrence Prediction: An Interpretable Two-Step Framework Authors: Christian Gapp , Elias Tappeiner , Martin Welk , Karl Fritscher , Stephanie Mangesius , Constantin Eisenschink , Philipp Deisl , Michael Knoflach , Astrid E.
Grams , Elke R. Gizewski , Rainer Schubert View a PDF of the paper titled Enabling Vision and Cross-Modal Learning for Multimodal Stroke Recurrence Prediction: An Interpretable Two-Step Framework, by Christian Gapp and 10 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: Multimodal stroke recurrence prediction requires effective integration of heterogeneous clinical and imaging data, yet modality imbalance often causes models to over-rely on dominant modalities and underutilize complementary information.
While self-supervised pretraining and selective parameter freezing are commonly employed to improve representation learning and fine-tuning stability, their effect on modality contributions and cross-modal behavior in multimodal medical models remains largely unexplored. In this work, we investigate whether image pretraining on 3D CTA scans reduces modality imbalance and improves cross-modal integration for stroke recurrence prediction, a clinically critical task we recently addressed.
To this end, two multimodal neural networks are pretrained in a self-supervised manner and subsequently fine-tuned using two distinct freezing strategies. Their performance and modality utilization are compared against both the baseline model from our previous work and models trained entirely from scratch in this study.
Our results demonstrate that self-supervised pretraining enables more effective utilization of the multimodal image-tabular dataset, outperforming both the prior baseline and all non-pretrained models. Notably, the best-performing Vision Transformer based neural network successfully overcomes unimodal collapse. Synergy analysis reveals significant interactions between vision and both gender and CHD, suggesting clinically relevant patterns for stroke recurrence.
Overall, our findings demonstrate that self-supervised pretraining and strategic fine-tuning support more balanced modality utilization and enable meaningful cross-modal interactions. Code is publicly available at this https URL . Comments: ML-CDS 2026: Multimodal Learning and Fusion Across Scales for Clinical Decision Support, MICCAI 2026, Strasbourg, France Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.
CV) ; Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) ACM classes: I.2.1 Cite as: arXiv:2609.22271 [cs.CV] (or arXiv:2609.22271v1 [cs.CV] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.22271 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Christian Gapp [ view email ] [v1] Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:24:05 UTC (1,799 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Enabling Vision and Cross-Modal Learning for Multimodal Stroke Recurrence Prediction: An Interpretable Two-Step Framework, by Christian Gapp and 10 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.
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