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Year 2026 · Volume 5 · Issue 2

Research Article

Multimodal Learning for Lung Disease Diagnosis using Enhanced Deep Learning and Explainable AI

Ahmedunissa Hafsa1 Mohammed Ahmed2
1 CSED, Muffakham Jah College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India 2 Assistant Professor, CSED, Muffakham Jah College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Published Online: May-August 2026

Pages: 1029-1038

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