arXiv Computer Vision

CMRVision: A Foundation Model for Cardiac MR Image Analysis

CMRVision is a cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) foundation model trained with DINOv3-style self‑supervised learning on 36 million multi‑center, multi‑sequence CMR images. It outperforms prior natural‑image, medical‑image, supervised, and CMR baselines on multi‑task segmentation (cine, LGE, mapping) and cine view classification, achieving Dice scores of 0.940–0.967 for LV and 0.855–0.905 for myocardium, and a zero‑shot Dice of 0.692 on unseen LGE long‑axis views. The model demonstrates robust cross‑view generalization and highest average accuracy (0.906) for cine view classification.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 1

The MYOSAIQ Challenge: Myocardial Segmentation with Automated Infarct Quantification

arXiv:2608.29246v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is the modality of choice to assess myocardial infarction (MI) lesions. Now...

By Olivier Bernard, William A. Romero R., Cyprien Bouton, Celia Goujat, Hang Jung Ling, Pierre-Marc Jodoin, Fumin Guo, Calder Sheagren, Graham Wright, Abdul Qayyum, Moona Mazher, Steven A. Niederer, Hairui Wang, Xiaomei Wu, Franz Thaler, Gernot Plank, Martin Urschler, Ricardo M. Rosales, Esther Pueyo, Nicolas Duchateau, Frederic Cervenansky, Patrick Clarysse, Loic Belle, Thomas Bochaton, Nathan Mewton, Magalie Viallon, Pierre Croisille
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 14

SV-Cine: Diagnosis-Conditioned Segmentation of Single Ventricle Physiology via Generative Data Augmentation

The paper introduces SV-Cine, a cardiac MRI segmentation framework tailored for single ventricle physiology (SVP). It combines a generative data augmentation pipeline that creates synthetic 3D cardiac meshes and MRI, with a diagnosis-conditioned adaptation of the CineMA foundation model that uses patient-level diagnostic information to improve segmentation. Evaluations on an internal cohort show high Dice scores for left and right ventricles, outperforming nnU-Net, and demonstrate that incorporating diagnosis priors can adapt a pretrained model to specialized SVP tasks.

By Lila Cunge, Yuehong Liu, Hang Xu, Thomas Coudert, Pierangelo Renella, J Paul Finn, William Hsu, Kim-Lien Nguyen
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

ORION-CMR: On-scanner Reporting with Integrated Foundation Model for End-to-End Cardiac MRI Analysis and Interpretation

ORION‑CMR is a scanner‑native, end‑to‑end foundation model for cardiac MRI that performs sequence classification, ventricular function assessment, LGE detection, disease classification, and generates reports in about 90 seconds. Trained on 12.9 million images, it outperformed supervised baselines and a prior CMR foundation model, achieving state‑of‑the‑art LGE classification and scar segmentation. In a multi‑vendor clinical cohort, it reached an AUC of 0.96 for normal‑vs‑abnormal detection and 0.88 for multiclass disease classification, with generated reports agreeing 81.4% with expert interpretation.

By Omer Burak Demirel, Kelly K. Horst, Alessio Perazzolo, Elisa Bruno, Kenan Kaya, Rongzhen Ouyang, Enas Ahmed, Jouke Smink, Spencer L. Waddle, Zainudeen Kallumpurath, Tzu Cheng Chao, Dinghui Wang, Steve G. Langer, Timothy L. Kline, Panagiotis Korfiatis, Jacinta Browne, Ivana Isgum, Tim Leiner
arXiv AI
Jul 14

A Unified Framework for Comprehensive Cardiac CT Segmentation and Phenotyping: Human-in-the-Loop Data Annotation, Vision Foundation Model Development, Multicenter Evaluation and Clinical Validation

arXiv:2607. 11287v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Comprehensive quantification of cardiac structures from computed tomography (CT) remains limited not by data availability but by the scalability of measurements, which makes routine use impractical.

By Pooya Mohammadi Kazaj, Leo Fridolin Weber, Wen Xie, Seyed Amir Ahmad Safavi-Naini, Anselm Stark, Giovanni Baj, Ali Mokhtari, Toshiya Yoshida, Christoph Ryffel, Taishi Okuno, Yoshihiro Akashi, Ronny R. Buechel, Thomas Pilgrim, Waldo Valenzuela, George C. M. Siontis, Xiaowei Xu, Moritz Hundertmark, Stephan Windecker, Christoph Grani, Isaac Shiri
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 21

CalcSeg: Confidence-aware 3D Latent Context Curriculum Learning For Myocardial Scar Segmentation From Single-Stack LGE-CMRs

arXiv:2608. 20305v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Myocardial scar segmentation from single-stack late gadolinium-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance (LGE-CMR) imaging has been a longstanding and clinically important challenge, particularly in the presence of low tissue contrast, diffuse, and small scar regions.

By Nivetha Jayakumar, Hannah Kim, Amit R. Patel, Miaomiao Zhang