Advancing Histopathology-Based Breast Cancer Diagnosis: Insights into Multi-Modality and Explainability
It addresses the need for more precise and timely breast cancer detection for patients, but it is incremental as it reviews existing advancements rather than presenting new results.
This review explores the use of multi-modal techniques, combining histopathology images with non-image data, and Explainable AI (XAI) to enhance breast cancer diagnosis, aiming to improve diagnostic accuracy, clinician confidence, and patient engagement.
It is imperative that breast cancer is detected precisely and timely to improve patient outcomes. Diagnostic methodologies have traditionally relied on unimodal approaches; however, medical data analytics is integrating diverse data sources beyond conventional imaging. Using multi-modal techniques, integrating both image and non-image data, marks a transformative advancement in breast cancer diagnosis. The purpose of this review is to explore the burgeoning field of multimodal techniques, particularly the fusion of histopathology images with non-image data. Further, Explainable AI (XAI) will be used to elucidate the decision-making processes of complex algorithms, emphasizing the necessity of explainability in diagnostic processes. This review utilizes multi-modal data and emphasizes explainability to enhance diagnostic accuracy, clinician confidence, and patient engagement, ultimately fostering more personalized treatment strategies for breast cancer, while also identifying research gaps in multi-modality and explainability, guiding future studies, and contributing to the strategic direction of the field.