MUST: Modality-Specific Representation-Aware Transformer for Diffusion-Enhanced Survival Prediction with Missing Modality

ArXi:2603.26071v1 Announce Type: cross Accurate survival prediction from multimodal medical data is essential for precision oncology, yet clinical deployment faces a persistent challenge: modalities are frequently incomplete due to cost constraints, technical limitations, or retrospective data availability. While recent methods attempt to address missing modalities through feature alignment or joint distribution learning, they fundamentally lack explicit modeling of the unique contributions of each modality as opposed to the information derivable from other modalities.