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ReviewCommunications engineering2026

Bridging modalities with AI: a review of AI advances in multimodal biomedical imaging.

Le Minh Thao Doan, Kaveh Shahhosseini, Suraj Verma, Abdolreza Marefat, Giorgio Locicero, Sneha Verma, Claudio Angione, Annalisa Occhipinti

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Review in Communications engineering, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Le Minh Thao DoanSchool of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9656-7287
Kaveh ShahhosseiniSchool of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7272-3038
Suraj VermaSchool of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9684-0885
Abdolreza MarefatDepartment of Computer Engineering, Technical and Engineering Faculty, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Giorgio LociceroDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1836-0480
Sneha VermaSchool of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK.
Claudio AngioneSchool of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK.
Annalisa OcchipintiSchool of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK. a.occhipinti@tees.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-1496

Funding

RCUK | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) BB/Y006933/1RCUK | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) BB/Y01278X/1RCUK | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) EP/Y001613/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The rapid evolution of AI has facilitated innovative solutions in analysing different biomedical imaging modalities. By leveraging the complementary information from each modality, multimodal AI solutions have shown a huge potential to go beyond human capabilities and offer advances in bioimaging. At the same time, new foundation models and transformer-based architectures are now poised to address unsolved challenges in this field. This review aims to explore and discuss the state-of-the-art AI techniques applied in multimodal biomedical imaging, presenting the key challenges and future directions. We discuss several integration strategies to combine multiple biomedical imaging data types. We also focus on methods to overcome the open challenges related to data quality, model interpretability, and ethical implications.

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PMID41688558
PMCPMC12905376

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