arXiv AI By Saman Rahbar

Frozen Brain-MRI Foundation Models Are Site Fingerprints

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arXiv:2608. 10295v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Frozen foundation-model (FM) embeddings are increasingly used as off-the-shelf brain-MRI representations, on the assumption that they capture anatomy.

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