M2G-LLM: Enhancing Clinical Prediction via Multimodal Graph Reasoning and LLM Context Injection
TL;DR
The proposed M2G-LLM (Multimodal MedGraph-LLM), a novel framework that enhances LLMs with multimodal integration and alignment via Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), highlights the promise of combining the language understanding of LLMs with the relational reasoning capabilities of GNNs for comprehensive, multimodal healthcare analysis.
Abstract
Integrating diverse data modalities --- such as clinical notes, laboratory results, and medical imaging --- is essential for advancing clinical decision-making. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance in processing unstructured clinical text, their limited capacity to incorporate non-text modalities hinders their broader utility in healthcare applications. Here, we introduce M2G-LLM (Multimodal MedGraph-LLM), a novel framework that enhances LLMs with multimodal integration and alignment via Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Our approach models temporal relationships between patient visits, propagates information across clinically similar patients, and aligns heterogeneous data sources to construct enriched multimodal context vectors. These vectors are injected into the intermediate layers of the LLM, enabling joint reasoning over textual and non-textual modalities. We evaluate M2G-LLM on the MIMIC-IV and MIMIC-CXR datasets, demonstrating improvements in clinical prediction tasks over strong baseline models. Our results highlight the promise of combining the language understanding of LLMs with the relational reasoning capabilities of GNNs for comprehensive, multimodal healthcare analysis.
