DeFusion: An Effective Decoupling Fusion Network for Multi-Modal Pregnancy Prediction

Xueqiang Ouyang, Jia Wei, Wenjie Huo, Xiaocong Wang, Rui Li, Jianlong Zhou

Keywords: decoupling fusion, multi-modal fusion, IVF-ET pregnancy prediction.

Abstract: Temporal embryo images and parental fertility table indicators are both valuable for pregnancy prediction in in vitro fertilization embryo transfer (IVF-ET). However, current machine learning models cannot make full use of the complementary information between the two modalities to improve pregnancy prediction performance. In this paper, we propose a Decoupling Fusion Network called DeFusion to effectively integrate the multi-modal information for IVF-ET pregnancy prediction. Specifically, we propose a decoupling fusion module that decouples the information from the different modalities into related and unrelated information, thereby achieving a more delicate fusion. And we fuse temporal embryo images with a spatial-temporal position encoding, and extract fertility table indicator information with a table transformer. To evaluate the effectiveness of our model, we use a new dataset including 4046 cases collected from Southern Medical University. The experiments show that our model outperforms state-of-the-art methods. Meanwhile, the performance on the eye disease prediction dataset reflects the model's good generalization. Our code and dataset are available at https://github.com/Ou-Young-1999/DFNet.

Primary Subject Area: Detection and Diagnosis

Secondary Subject Area: Application: Other

Paper Type: Both

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