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ModelsGenesis is notable for its foundational approach to pre-trained models specific to medical imaging tasks, with awards validating its contribution to the field of transfer learning and self-supervised strategies.
Good fit when
- If you are working on downstream tasks in medical image analysis where a robust foundation model enhances accuracy and reduces training time
- When focusing on tasks requiring complex representation learning such as 3D models, ModelsGenesis provides a solid base for fine-tuning
Avoid when
- Avoid if your project requires real-time inference capabilities, as ModelsGenesis focuses more on improving model quality through extensive pre-training rather than optimizing for speed
- Not recommended if you are in need of domain-general foundation models that work across various industries, as it is specialized strictly towards medical imaging
- Requirements:
- Jupyter Notebook environment is required for leveraging ModelsGenesis pre-trained models and conducting fine-tuning.
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Overview
ModelsGenesis is among the earliest foundation models in medical imaging, supporting multiple downstream tasks through pre-trained representations.
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README
We have built a set of pre-trained models called Generic Autodidactic Models, nicknamed Models Genesis, because they are created ex nihilo (with no manual labeling), self-taught (learned by self-supervision), and generic (served as source models for generating application-specific target models). We envision that Models Genesis may serve as a primary source of transfer learning for 3D medical imaging applications, in particular, with limited annotated data.
Paper
This repository provides the official implementation of training Models Genesis as well as the usage of the pre-trained Models Genesis in the following paper:
Models Genesis: Generic Autodidactic Models for 3D Medical Image Analysis
Zongwei Zhou1, Vatsal Sodha1, Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee1,
Ruibin Feng1, Nima Tajbakhsh1, Michael B. Gotway2, and Jianming Liang1
1 Arizona State University, 2 Mayo Clinic
International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2019
Young Scientist Award
paper | code | slides | poster | talk (YouTube, YouKu) | blog
Models Genesis
Zongwei Zhou1, Vatsal Sodha1, Jiaxuan Pang1, Michael B. Gotway2, and Jianming Liang1
1 Arizona State University, 2 Mayo Clinic
Medical Image Analysis (MedIA)
MedIA Best Paper Award
paper | code | slides | graphical abstract
Available implementation
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★ News: Models Genesis, incorporated with nnU-Net, rank # 1 in segmenting liver/tumor and hippocampus.
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Major results from our work
- Models Genesis outperform 3D models trained from scratch
- Models Genesis top any 2D approaches, including ImageNet models and degraded 2D Models Genesis
- Models Genesis (2D) offer performances equivalent to supervised pre-trained models
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