Fig. 2: Fusion strategies using deep learning. | npj Digital Medicine

Fig. 2: Fusion strategies using deep learning.

From: Fusion of medical imaging and electronic health records using deep learning: a systematic review and implementation guidelines

Fig. 2

Model architecture for different fusion strategies. Early fusion (left figure) concatenates original or extracted features at the input level. Joint fusion (middle figure) also joins features at the input level, but the loss is propagated back to the feature extracting model. Late fusion (right figure) aggregates predictions at the decision level.

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