The article reviews foundation models (FMs) in medical image analysis, highlighting their shift from task‑specific AI to generalized representations learned from large datasets. It categorizes studies into vision‑only foundation models (VFMs) and vision‑language foundation models (VLFMs), mapping their architectures, training strategies, and clinical applications. The review includes quantitative analyses of dataset use, performance trends, and discusses challenges such as generalization, scalability, evaluation, fairness, and deployment, while proposing future research directions for robustness, interpretability, and clinical integration.
arXiv:2607. 07219v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision foundation models (VFMs) are increasingly being developed for radiological imaging, yet their definition, development and evaluation remain heterogeneous.
arXiv:2603.02790v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Foundation models are changing the way we develop medical artificial intelligence. By learning broadly generalizable features across diverse data m...
arXiv:2605. 23995v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Self-supervised learning (SSL) is increasingly used in medical image analysis to reduce dependence on costly expert annotations by learning transferable representations from unlabeled data.
Color Fundus Photography (CFP) is a primary non-invasive imaging modality for large-scale screening of ophthalmic and systemic diseases. Existing surveys mainly summarize task-specific algorithms, datasets, or preprocessing techniques independently, lacking a unified perspective on their co-evolution with modern artificial intelligence.
arXiv:2605. 23995v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for addressing the annotation bottleneck in medical imaging by learning representations from unlabeled data.
arXiv:2409.16183v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Radiology is a vital and complex component of modern clinical workflow and covers many tasks. Recently, vision-language (VL) foundation models in m...
arXiv:2506. 17337v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision Language Models (VLMs) have shown promise in automating image diagnosis and interpretation in clinical settings.
arXiv:2609.00866v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid advancement of vision-language models (VLMs) has accelerated progress in computational pathology; however, whole-slide image (WSI)-based pa...
arXiv:2607. 07673v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medicine is inherently multimodal, requiring clinicians to synthesize information across diverse data streams.
arXiv:2610.08528v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Clinical diagnosis is inherently a structured reasoning process, yet existing deep learning models often bypass this structure by mapping image featu...
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.
arXiv:2603.14271v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Foundation models, pretrained on diverse data, objectives, or modalities for reuse across downstream tasks, are increasingly applied to medical ima...