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MultiSense-Pneumo: A Multimodal Learning Framework for Pneumonia Screening in Resource-Constrained Settings

Chameli Dommanige, Dineth Jayakody, Pasindu Thenahandi

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The paper describes MultiSense-Pneumo, an offline-capable multimodal framework that fuses symptom triage, audio classification, speech recognition, and radiograph analysis for pneumonia screening in low-resource settings.

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Pneumonia kills many people in poor regions because doctors there often lack X-ray machines, labs, or experts. The authors built a computer program that tries to help by looking at four kinds of information at once: a checklist of symptoms, the sound of a cough, what the patient says, and an X-ray picture. Each piece is turned into a simple risk number using standard tools like LightGBM for sounds and a ResNet neural net for pictures. These numbers are then added together with a clear rule so a health worker can see one overall score. The whole system is made to work without the internet on ordinary laptops. The abstract says tests showed the X-ray part stayed reliable when the pictures came from different hospitals, but the cough part had trouble spotting rare cases. The authors stress this is only a research prototype, not a finished medical device that has been proven safe in real clinics.

Core claim

MultiSense-Pneumo is a multimodal framework for pneumonia oriented screening and triage support that integrates structured symptom descriptors, cough audio, spoken language, and chest radiographs and can operate fully offline on standard laptop class hardware.

Load-bearing premise

That the normalized risk signals from each modality can be meaningfully aggregated into a unified screening estimate that improves triage decisions in real resource-constrained environments, an assumption stated in the abstract but without supporting performance data or validation studies.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.02207 by Chameli Dommanige, Dineth Jayakody, Pasindu Thenahandi.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Schematic overview of the MultiSense-Pneumo multimodal architecture. view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Structured symptom triage module based on guideline-inspired assess view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Cough audio processing pipeline within the MultiSense-Pneumo multi view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: MFCC spectrograms (K coefficients × T frames) for representative cough recordings. Warmer tones indicate higher coefficient magnitude. (a) The posi￾tive sample shows elevated energy in lower cepstral bands and greater temporal variability; (b) the negative sample exhibits a more uniform energy distribution, consistent with unobstructed airflow. – Spectral Centroid — computes the amplitude-weighted center o… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Examples of synthetic domain perturbations applied to chest radiographs view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Overview of the MultiSense-Pneumo multimodal pipeline. Modality view at source ↗
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Pneumonia remains a leading global cause of morbidity and mortality, particularly in low resource settings where access to imaging, laboratory testing, and specialist care is limited. Clinical assessment relies on heterogeneous evidence, including symptoms, respiratory patterns, and chest imaging, making screening inherently multimodal. However, many existing computational approaches remain unimodal and focus primarily on radiographs. In this work, we present MultiSense-Pneumo, a multimodal framework for pneumonia oriented screening and triage support that integrates structured symptom descriptors, cough audio, spoken language, and chest radiographs. The system combines deterministic symptom triage, LightGBM based acoustic classification, domain adversarial radiograph analysis using ResNet 18, transformer based speech recognition, and an interpretable multimodal fusion operator. Each modality is transformed into a normalized risk signal and aggregated into a unified screening estimate, enabling transparent and modular decision support. MultiSense-Pneumo is designed for real world deployment under modest computational constraints and can operate fully offline on standard laptop class hardware, making it suitable for community health workers, rural clinics, and emergency response settings. Experimental results demonstrate robustness of the radiograph pathway under domain shifts, while highlighting limitations in minority class recall for acoustic signals. MultiSense-Pneumo is intended as a research prototype for screening and triage support rather than a clinically validated diagnostic system.

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The work relies on standard supervised learning assumptions for each modality and the validity of risk-signal normalization and fusion; no new free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are introduced in the abstract.

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