Multimodal Deep Learning for Chest X-Ray Abnormality Classification and Interpretability through Demographic Feature Integration
This study proposes a multimodal deep learning framework that integrates chest X-ray images with demographic metadata using a ConvNeXt Large backbone, achieving a 96.88% macro-average AUC on the NIH ChestX-ray14 dataset and demonstrating superior performance and interpretability compared to existing image-only models.