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ReviewNature communications2026

Interpretable graph-based models on multimodal biomedical data integration: a technical review and benchmarking.

Alireza Sadeghi, Farshid Hajati, Ahmadreza Argha, Nigel H Lovell, Min Yang, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny

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Review in Nature communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Alireza SadeghiHolcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA.
Farshid HajatiSchool of Science and Technology, Faculty of Science, Agriculture, Business and Law, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia.
Ahmadreza ArghaSchool of Biomedical Engineering, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-8276-9774
Nigel H LovellSchool of Biomedical Engineering, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-1637-1079
Min YangShenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China.ORCID 0000-0003-3814-2728
Hamid Alinejad-RoknyUNSW BioMedical Machine Learning Lab (BML), School of Biomedical Engineering, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia. h.alinejad@unsw.edu.au.ORCID 0000-0002-2189-9153

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Integrating diverse biomedical modalities is essential for robust healthcare insights, and graph-based models are increasingly used to capture complex relational structures. Yet, their clinical translation hinges on interpretability. This review surveys interpretable graph-based models applied to multimodal biomedical data, highlighting dominant trends in disease classification, static graph construction, and post-hoc explainability. We categorize explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) techniques, benchmark SHAP, saliency, sensitivity, and graph masking on Alzheimer's disease data, and reveal complementary strengths. A development flowchart and future directions, such as dynamic graphs, knowledge integration, and LLM-based explainability, position this work as a key reference for trustworthy biomedical AI.

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Artificial IntelligenceBenchmarkingAlzheimer DiseaseHumans

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PMID42303596
PMCPMC13280480

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