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ReviewJournal of ophthalmology2026

Multimodal Deep Learning for Diabetic Retinopathy: A Survey.

Genyan Qin, Qinghua Peng, Yasha Zhou, Jun Peng, Qing Liu, Jian Xu

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Review in Journal of ophthalmology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Genyan QinDepartment of Ophthalmology, Changde First Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Changde 415000, Hunan, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0308-0766
Qinghua PengThe Domestic First-Class Discipline Construction Project of Chinese Medicine of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha 410007, Hunan, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9378-1330
Yasha ZhouThe Domestic First-Class Discipline Construction Project of Chinese Medicine of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha 410007, Hunan, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2559-176X
Jun PengDepartment of Ophthalmology, The First Hospital of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha 410208, Hunan, China, hnctcm.edu.cn.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-9346-7322
Qing LiuDepartment of Ophthalmology, Tong Ren Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200336, China, shsmu.edu.cn.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7432-9729
Jian XuDepartment of Ophthalmology, Tong Ren Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200336, China, shsmu.edu.cn.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2451-2401

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) remains a leading cause of blindness globally, driving the rapid development of automated diagnostic systems leveraging deep learning. Recent research demonstrates that multimodal deep learning models that integrate retinal images, electronic health records (EHR), and clinical text data can surpass single-modality approaches in DR screening accuracy. In this survey, we systematically review advances from the last 3 years, highlighting key models and methodologies, as well as datasets and evaluation metrics. We find multimodal approaches consistently outperform single-modality models, and often by a clear margin, and identify data scarcity, domain adaptation, and interpretability as the three main hurdles ahead.

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diabetic retinopathymedical image analysismultimodal deep learningretinal imagingvision language models

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PMID42626299
PMCPMC13492048

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