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Thread the Needle: Genomics-Guided Prompt-Bridged Attention Model for Survival Prediction of Glioma Based on MRI Images

  • Yi Zhong
  • , Xubin Zheng*
  • , Xiongri Shen
  • , Jiaqi Wang
  • , Leilei Zhao
  • , Zhenxi Song
  • , Zhiguo Zhang*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen
  • Great Bay University

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Abstract

Glioma remains one of the most lethal malignancy, making accurate prognosis crucial for personalized treatment and improved patient outcome. Existing models based on non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offer convenience, but they suffer from the poor performance and generalizability compared to genomic biomarkers, limiting their clinical adoption. Genomic biomarkers, such as IDH mutation and 1p/19q co-deletion, provide superior prognostic value but are restricted by their reliance on invasive surgical sampling. In this study, we hypothesize that these genomic biomarkers can guide the development of more robust MRI-based prognostic models, and propose a genomics-guided prompt learning framework that leverages both MRI and transcriptomic data to enhance survival prediction. Specifically, we introduce a novel visual modeling strategy for comprehensive glioma MRI representation and a Prompt-bridged Attention mechanism that can fuse multiple modalities during training and enhance visual representations during inference. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method achieves c-indeces of 0.6709 and 0.6904 on UCSF-PDGM and TCGA-GBM datasets, respectively, with highly significant p-values of 5.27×10-14 and 6.72×10-7. These results substantially outperform existing methods, presenting a promising step toward reliable and non-invasive glioma prognosis prediction.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2025 - 28th International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsJames C. Gee, Jaesung Hong, Carole H. Sudre, Polina Golland, Daniel C. Alexander, Juan Eugenio Iglesias, Archana Venkataraman, Jong Hyo Kim
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages625-635
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783032049803
DOIs
StatePublished - 2026
Externally publishedYes
Event28th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2025 - Daejeon, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 23 Sep 202527 Sep 2025

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume15966 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference28th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2025
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityDaejeon
Period23/09/2527/09/25

Keywords

  • Genomics-Radiomics
  • Prompt Learning
  • Survival prediction

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