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ArticleCancers2026

Multimodal Large Language Models for Prognostic Prediction in Cervical Cancer Treated with Definitive Chemoradiotherapy: An Exploratory Study of Systematic Multimodal Data Integration.

Zhaoqi Gu, Chen Wang, Qizhen Zhu, Weiping Wang, Yidong Zhang, Ke Hu

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Zhaoqi GuDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, China.
Chen WangDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, China.
Qizhen ZhuDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, China.
Weiping WangDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, China.
Yidong ZhangDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, China.
Ke HuDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, China.

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Beijing Municipal Science Z251100004625026
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Abstract

BACKGROUND/

objectivesAbout 25-35% of patients with cervical cancer treated with definitive concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) relapse within five years, and non-imaging clinical factors stratify their risk only modestly. We evaluated whether a general-purpose multimodal large language model (MLLM), used without fine-tuning, could estimate recurrence risk in this setting.

methodsIn this retrospective single-center study, 82 patients treated with definitive radiotherapy (79/82 with concurrent platinum-based chemotherapy) who had a complete pretreatment MRI report were analyzed. Gemini 3.1 Pro generated a structured report from pelvic MRI images and, separately, estimated recurrence/metastasis risk from clinical, laboratory, treatment and imaging data. Because treatment cycles and overall treatment time actually completed were included, this was a retrospective treatment-complete risk assessment rather than a strictly pretreatment prediction. Five prompting strategies differing only in their inputs-an ablation of input modalities-were each run three times; AI reports were graded against paired human reports on a 14-item rubric by an independent model (Claude Opus 4.6).

resultsForty patients (48.8%) relapsed. Discrimination rose from an AUC of 0.704 with a clinical baseline to 0.790 with the full multimodal input (95% CI 0.687-0.883; ΔAUC +0.085). This gain was significant on our primary two-sided bootstrap test after Holm correction for ten pairwise comparisons (

conclusionsA non-fine-tuned MLLM can integrate multimodal data into a prognostic estimate, but its automatically generated MRI reports are frequently discordant with radiologist reports in specific ways and require expert review and external validation before clinical use.

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cervical cancerchemoradiotherapylarge language modelsLLM-as-a-judgeMRI report generationmultimodal artificial intelligenceprognostic predictionprompt engineering

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PMID42882831
PMCPMC13664468

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