arXiv:2608.17521cs.CV2026-08

用6.6万张脑部MRI训练模型,识别正常大脑随年龄变化的规律。

BrainNorm: A Foundation Model that knows Normal via Semantic Atlas Pretraining

论文配图:BrainNorm: A Foundation Model that knows Normal via Semantic Atlas Pretraining
图 1 · 摘自论文原文
  • 通过健康人群的图像-语言对比学习,构建解剖分区嵌入空间
  • 在25种任务中实现零样本疾病预测,准确率超越9个基线模型
  • 能定位神经退行性病变的异常区域,与临床病理高度吻合

我们提出BrainNorm,一个基于约6.6万例T1加权结构磁共振成像(T1w sMRI)扫描的范式化基础模型。通过在不同年龄段的健康人群上进行类图像-语言对比预训练,BrainNorm学习得到语义图谱潜在空间(SAL),将每张扫描图像表示为一组图谱分区嵌入。该空间生成了与年龄一致的健康模板轨迹,并支持以受试者实际年龄为基准的局部偏差评分。在6个下游数据集、25种任务设置下,包括年龄估计、脑龄差分析、分区识别及单/多疾病分类,评估了其泛化能力,覆盖直接推理、零样本、少样本和全数据线性探针等场景。在SAL空间中识别出的偏差模式,使零样本疾病预测成为可能;仅在健康数据上微调后,各类任务性能进一步提升。所有分类任务中,对BrainNorm冻结嵌入的线性探针表现优于9个端到端微调的基线模型。此外,BrainNorm识别出的多种神经退行性疾病局部异常,与临床文献中已知的神经退行性病理高度一致。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

We introduce BrainNorm, a normative foundation model, trained and tested on ~66,000 T1-weighted structural MRI (T1w sMRI) scans. By leveraging language-image style contrastive pretraining on healthy cohorts across ages, BrainNorm learns a Semantic Atlas Latent space (SAL), where each scan is represented as a set of atlas-parcel embeddings. This yields parcel-specific healthy aging template trajectories that support age-consistent template matching and localized deviation scoring relative to a subject's chronological age. Across 6 downstream cohorts, BrainNorm demonstrates generalization evaluated across 25 task-setting combinations spanning age estimation, brain-age gap estimation, parcel identification, and single- & multi-disease classification tasks under direct inference, zero-shot, few-shot & full-data linear-probe settings. The resulting deviation patterns in SAL space enable zero-shot tasks for disease prediction using parcel-wise abnormalities. Fine-tuning on healthy-only cohorts of downstream datasets further improves the performance of various tasks. Across all classification tasks, linear probing on BrainNorm's frozen embeddings outperforms 9 baselines finetuned under end-to-end supervision. Furthermore, the localized deviations identified by BrainNorm across various neurodegenerative disorders closely align with established neurodegeneration pathology in clinical literature.

脑影像基础模型神经退行性病异常检测

Thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability. PaperDance 不是 arXiv 官方产品;中文卡片由大模型生成,请以原文为准。