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MR-JEPA: A General Purpose Video Foundation Model for Cardiac MRI

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 2

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.

By Athira J. Jacob, Puneet Sharma, Daniel Rueckert
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 AI
Jun 2

CardioLens: Revealing the Clinical Reality Gap of MLLMs via Multi-Sequence Cardiac MRI Evaluations

arXiv:2606. 00123v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown strong performance on public medical benchmarks, yet existing evaluations often remain weak proxies for clinical use, relying on isolated inputs and simplified recognition-style tasks.

By Zixian Su, Hongkai Zhang, Fan Gao, Encheng Su, Taiping Qu, Jingwei Guo, Nan Zhang, Hui Wang, Zhen Zhou, Kairui Bo, Yan Chen, Yue Ren, Shuai Li, Lei Xu, Henggui Zhang
arXiv AI
Oct 9

Reading the Whole Heart: Latent-Attention Masked Autoencoders for Multimodal Cardiac Representation Learning

The paper introduces Latent-Attention Masked Autoencoder (LAMAE), a multimodal masked autoencoder that learns patient-level representations by exchanging information directly in the latent space through a shared latent-attention module. LAMAE integrates complementary modalities—electrocardiogram, echocardiography, and chest X-rays—within a study-view-entity hierarchy, enabling aggregation of variable observations and handling missing modalities. Pretraining on over 500,000 MIMIC-IV hospital stays, LAMAE outperforms modality-specific pretraining and strong contrastive and vision-language baselines on multimodal hospital-stay tasks such as in-hospital mortality, ICD-10 and DRG coding, and length of stay, while remaining competitive on unimodal tasks.

By Andrea Agostini, Simon B\"ohi, Moritz Vandenhirtz, Samuel Ruiperez-Campillo, Max Kr\"ahenmann, Silke M\"uhlstedt, Irene Cannistraci, Ece \"Ozkan Elsen, Julia E. Vogt, Thomas M. Sutter
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
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 1

Learning Where to Look: Anatomical Grounding and Guided Attention for Cardiac MRI Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2609.39899v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) enables assessment of cardiac anatomy, ventricular function, and myocardial tissue characteristics. Clinicians...

By Bangwei Guo, Xiao Chen, Boris Mailhe, Jia Yao, Yiqing Wang, Ankush Mukherjee, Yikang Liu, Zheyuan Zhang, Hang Yu, Terrence Chen, Shanhui Sun
arXiv AI
Sep 28

Combining General and Domain-Specific Pretext Tasks for Brain MR Image Segmentation

The paper investigates combining a domain‑specific self‑supervised task—voxel‑level brain age prediction—with a general task—image inpainting—to pretrain models for brain MRI segmentation. A multitask pretraining framework jointly optimizes both objectives, yielding representations that outperform single‑task pretraining and training from scratch on three segmentation benchmarks (multiple sclerosis lesions, ischemic stroke lesions, and cortical structures). The study demonstrates that integrating domain‑specific and general self‑supervised tasks benefits the development of generalizable neuroimaging foundation models.

By Tasneem Nasser, Susanne Schmid, Roberto Souza, Naser El-Sheimy