arxivcs.CLcs.AI2026-07-16
Large Language Models as Unified Multimodal Learners for Clinical Prediction
Ajay Madhavan Ravichandran, Bilgin Osmandoja, Klemens Budde, Klaus Netter, Tobias Strapatsas, Aljoscha Burchardt, et al.
Electronic health records combine free-text clinical narratives with structured measurements such as vital signs, laboratory values, and comorbidities. Yet most clinical prediction systems still rely on task-specific fusion architectures, pairing dedicated encoders for each modal…