ArticleFrontiers in surgery2026
A transformer-based multi-modal fusion framework for laryngeal lesion classification using contact endoscopy.
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Purpose: This study introduces a novel multi-modal transformer-based framework that integrates clinical data, radiomic features, and deep learning representations for automated classification of laryngeal lesions from contact endoscopy images. Methods: We retrospectively enrolled 300 patients with laryngeal lesions from three independent medical centers (Centers A, B, and C), acquiring 7,847 contact endoscopy images with narrow band imaging. Clinical variables (18 features), radiomic features extracted using PyRadiomics (156 features), and deep learning representations from three state-of-the-art architectures, ConvNeXt V2, Swin Transformer V2, and EfficientNet V2 (3,328 combined features), were systematically integrated through a six-layer transformer encoder with multi-head cross-attention mechanisms. We evaluated three feature selection strategies (LASSO, mutual information, ReliefF) and three advanced classification architectures (Vision Transformer, Attention-MLP, Graph Neural Network). The framework was developed using data from Centers A and B ( Results: The optimal configuration (LASSO feature selection with Vision Transformer classifier) achieved accuracy of 96.1 ± 1.0% (AUC-ROC: 0.992 ± 0.007) on training, 93.8 ± 1.4% (AUC-ROC: 0.981 ± 0.012) on internal validation, and 91.4 ± 2.1% (AUC-ROC: 0.967 ± 0.019) on external testing, with sensitivity of 90.0 ± 2.8% and specificity of 92.5 ± 2.5% on the external cohort. The multi-modal fusion approach significantly outperformed all single-modality. Methods: clinical features alone (71.3% validation accuracy), radiomic features alone (84.2%), and the best individual deep learning model (87.6%), with improvements of 22.5, 9.6, and 6.2 percentage points respectively (all Conclusion: This study presents the first comprehensive framework for laryngeal lesion classification that systematically integrates clinical data, radiomics, and deep learning through transformer-based fusion.
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