"""Clinical-guided gated fusion of MRI and tabular embeddings. Instead of plain concatenation [z_mri; z_tab], learn a gate g = sigma(Wg[z_mri;z_tab]) that scales the tabular contribution before residual-adding it into the MRI stream: z = LayerNorm(z_mri + g * (Wt z_tab)) Rationale: when demographics (esp. age) are informative the gate opens; when they are unreliable or missing the MRI branch stays dominant, preventing age from swamping the imaging signal. This is the mechanism ablation A4 (concat) tests against. """ from __future__ import annotations import torch import torch.nn as nn class GatedFusion(nn.Module): def __init__(self, mri_dim: int, tab_dim: int, dropout: float = 0.1): super().__init__() self.tab_proj = nn.Linear(tab_dim, mri_dim) self.gate = nn.Sequential( nn.Linear(mri_dim + tab_dim, mri_dim), nn.Sigmoid(), ) self.norm = nn.LayerNorm(mri_dim) self.drop = nn.Dropout(dropout) self.out_dim = mri_dim def forward(self, z_mri: torch.Tensor, z_tab: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor: g = self.gate(torch.cat([z_mri, z_tab], dim=-1)) # (B, mri_dim) t = self.tab_proj(z_tab) # (B, mri_dim) z = self.norm(z_mri + g * t) return self.drop(z) class ConcatFusion(nn.Module): """Ablation A4: plain concatenation baseline (no gate).""" def __init__(self, mri_dim: int, tab_dim: int, dropout: float = 0.1): super().__init__() self.proj = nn.Sequential( nn.Linear(mri_dim + tab_dim, mri_dim), nn.GELU(), nn.Dropout(dropout), ) self.out_dim = mri_dim def forward(self, z_mri: torch.Tensor, z_tab: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor: return self.proj(torch.cat([z_mri, z_tab], dim=-1))