# ClinRAG-GRAPH: Clinical-prior Retrieval-Augmented Graph Model with Domain Adversarial Learning for Breast pCR Prediction

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00798 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.00798/

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- [Domain-Adversarial Training of Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1505.07818/) (2015)
- [Modeling Relational Data with Graph Convolutional Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.06103/) (2017)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) response prediction is clinically important for treatment stratification in breast cancer. However, robust pre-treatment pathological complete response (pCR) prediction remains challenging due to insufficient cross-modal modeling, multicenter imaging heterogeneity, and weak evidence-grounded interpretability. We propose ClinRAG-GRAPH, a Clinically informed Retrieval-Augmented Generation Graph framework, for pre-treatment pCR prediction from DCE-MRI, structured clinical variables, and biopsy-derived pathological biomarkers. ClinRAG-GRAPH constructs an intra-patient clinical-prior graph and applies a prior-guided relation-aware graph convolutional network for structured multimodal representation learning. To improve cross-center robustness, we introduce a dual-branch domain-adversarial learning strategy to suppress protocol-related MRI bias while preserving pCR-relevant features. To enhance interpretability, we further incorporate large language model (LLM)-driven subgraph RAG module that retrieves clinically analogous historical cases and integrates retrieved evidence for pCR inference. We assemble a large-scale multicenter NAC breast cancer cohort for extensive validation, drawing from two public sources and three in-house centers.Results show that ClinRAG-GRAPH achieves AUCs of 0.815 on the internal test set and 0.774/0.712 on two external test sets, demonstrating robust pre-treatment pCR prediction across centers. The code is available at the anonymized https://github.com/miccai26-1181/ClinRAG-GRAPH.