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MRI-CORE: A Foundation Model for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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Author

Haoyu Dong, Yuwen Chen, Hanxue Gu, Nicholas Konz, Yaqian Chen, Qihang Li, and Maciej A. Mazurowski.

Outline

In this paper, we present a vision-based model called MRI-CORE, trained on over 110,000 MRI images (over 6 million slices) for 18 body parts to address the data shortage problem in medical image analysis. MRI-CORE demonstrates better performance than state-of-the-art methods on 13 data-constrained segmentation tasks, image classification, and zero-shot segmentation, suggesting its potential to contribute to the development of data-efficient AI models. We also present a strategy for obtaining the most informative base model and a novel analysis of the relationship between the similarity between pretraining and subtask data and transfer learning performance, and the model is publicly available.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
Contributes to solving the problem of data shortage by presenting MRI-CORE, a vision-based model utilizing a large-scale MRI dataset.
Performance improvements over existing best-performing models for various medical image analysis tasks (segmentation, classification, zero-shot segmentation).
Presenting the possibility of developing data-efficient AI models.
Expand research and enhance its use by making models and analysis results public.
Provides insight into optimal base model training strategies.
Limitations:
The performance evaluation of MRI-CORE is limited to 13 tasks. Performance evaluation for more diverse tasks is needed.
Further validation of the model's generalization performance is needed. There is a possibility of overfitting to certain datasets.
Further analysis is needed on the diversity and balance of pre-training data, which may be biased toward certain areas or diseases.
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