Decipher-MR: A Vision-Language Foundation Model for 3D MRI Representations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21249v1
• Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:43:33 GMT
• Title: Decipher-MR: A Vision-Language Foundation Model for 3D MRI Representations
• Abstract summary: We present Decipher-MR, a 3D MRI-specific vision-language foundation model trained on a large-scale dataset.<n>Decipher-MR integrates self-supervised vision learning with report-guided text supervision to build robust, generalizable representations.<n>Our results establish Decipher-MR as a scalable and versatile foundation for MRI-based AI, facilitating efficient development across clinical and research domains.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a critical medical imaging modality in clinical diagnosis and research, yet its complexity and heterogeneity pose challenges for automated analysis, particularly in scalable and generalizable machine learning applications. While foundation models have revolutionized natural language and vision tasks, their application to MRI remains limited due to data scarcity and narrow anatomical focus. In this work, we present Decipher-MR, a 3D MRI-specific vision-language foundation model trained on a large-scale dataset comprising 200,000 MRI series from over 22,000 studies spanning diverse anatomical regions, sequences, and pathologies. Decipher-MR integrates self-supervised vision learning with report-guided text supervision to build robust, generalizable representations, enabling effective adaptation across broad applications. To enable robust and diverse clinical tasks with minimal computational overhead, Decipher-MR supports a modular design that enables tuning of lightweight, task-specific decoders attached to a frozen pretrained encoder. Following this setting, we evaluate Decipher-MR across diverse benchmarks including disease classification, demographic prediction, anatomical localization, and cross-modal retrieval, demonstrating consistent performance gains over existing foundation models and task-specific approaches. Our results establish Decipher-MR as a scalable and versatile foundation for MRI-based AI, facilitating efficient development across clinical and research domains.

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