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Sensors and Materials, Volume 38, Number 8(3) (2026)
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Published: August 27, 2026

Multi-source Medical Sensor Data Fusion Using Transformer for Preoperative Assessment of Placenta Accreta Spectrum [PDF]

Hua Liu, Weihan Ge, and Mingyu Zhao

(Received May 11, 2026; Accepted August 12, 2026)

Keywords: placenta accreta spectrum, medical sensors, sensing system, deep learning, cross-center generalization, multi-source sensor fusion

The prenatal diagnosis of placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) is essential to prevent life-threatening maternal hemorrhage. Recent deep learning models using single-modality ultrasound or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have achieved high accuracy, but each modality has inherent limitations: Ultrasound suffers from acoustic shadowing, MRI is prone to motion artifacts, and current methods lack mechanisms to handle missing modalities in routine workflows. To overcome these limitations, we developed a biomimetic medical sensor data fusion model that addresses these limitations through three innovations: (1) a structural prior step using morphological dilation to isolate the placental–myometrial interface, (2) a bidirectional cross-attention module that dynamically aligns acoustic and electromagnetic features, and (3) a missing-modality robust training strategy. On an external validation cohort (N = 60), the model achieved an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.889 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.824–0.941], outperforming single-modality models (ultrasound’s AUC = 0.812; MRI’s AUC = 0.843) and previous late-fusion networks (AUC = 0.857).

Corresponding author: Weihan Ge


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Hua Liu, Weihan Ge, and Mingyu Zhao, Multi-source Medical Sensor Data Fusion Using Transformer for Preoperative Assessment of Placenta Accreta Spectrum, Sens. Mater., Vol. 38, No. 8, 2026, p. 4673-4696.



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