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MM-DINOv2: Adapting Foundation Models for Multi-modal Medical Image Analysis.
Lect. Notes Comput. Sc. 15967 LNCS, 320-330 (2026)
Vision foundation models like DINOv2 demonstrate remarkable potential in medical imaging despite their origin in natural image domains. However, their design inherently works best for uni-modal image analysis, limiting their effectiveness for multi-modal imaging tasks that are common in many medical fields, such as neurology and oncology. While supervised models perform well in this setting, they fail to leverage unlabeled datasets and struggle with missing modalities—a frequent challenge in clinical settings. To bridge these gaps, we introduce MM-DINOv2, a novel and efficient framework that adapts the pre-trained vision foundation model DINOv2 for multi-modal medical imaging. Our approach incorporates multi-modal patch embeddings, enabling vision foundation models to effectively process multi-modal imaging data. To address missing modalities, we employ full-modality masking, which encourages the model to learn robust cross-modality relationships. Furthermore, we leverage semi-supervised learning to harness large unlabeled datasets, enhancing both the accuracy and reliability of medical predictions. We demonstrate our approach on glioma subtype classification from multi-sequence brain MRI, achieving a Matthews Correlation Coefficient (MCC) of 0.6 on an external test set, surpassing state-of-the-art supervised approaches by +11.1%. Beyond this specific application, our framework provides a scalable and robust blueprint for various multi-modal medical imaging problems effectively leveraging vision foundation models pre-trained on natural images while addressing real-world clinical challenges such as missing data and limited annotations (The code is publicly available at: https://github.com/daniel-scholz/mm-dinov2).
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Publikationstyp
Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Schlagwörter
Dinov2 ; Multi-modal Mri ; Semi-supervised Learning
Sprache
englisch
Veröffentlichungsjahr
2026
Prepublished im Jahr
2025
HGF-Berichtsjahr
2025
ISSN (print) / ISBN
0302-9743
e-ISSN
1611-3349
Konferenztitel
28th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2025
Konferzenzdatum
23-27 September 2025
Konferenzort
Daejeon
Zeitschrift
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Quellenangaben
Band: 15967 LNCS,
Seiten: 320-330
Verlag
Springer
Verlagsort
Berlin [u.a.]
Institut(e)
Institute of Radiation Medicine (IRM)
POF Topic(s)
30203 - Molecular Targets and Therapies
Forschungsfeld(er)
Radiation Sciences
PSP-Element(e)
G-501300-001
Scopus ID
105017962528
Erfassungsdatum
2025-10-23