Brain Harmony: A Multimodal Foundation Model Unifying Morphology and Function into 1D Tokens

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Hauptverfasser: Dong, Zijian, Li, Ruilin, Chong, Joanna Su Xian, Dehestani, Niousha, Teng, Yinghui, Lin, Yi, Li, Zhizhou, Zhang, Yichi, Xie, Yapei, Ooi, Leon Qi Rong, Yeo, B. T. Thomas, Zhou, Juan Helen
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author Dong, Zijian
Li, Ruilin
Chong, Joanna Su Xian
Dehestani, Niousha
Teng, Yinghui
Lin, Yi
Li, Zhizhou
Zhang, Yichi
Xie, Yapei
Ooi, Leon Qi Rong
Yeo, B. T. Thomas
Zhou, Juan Helen
author_facet Dong, Zijian
Li, Ruilin
Chong, Joanna Su Xian
Dehestani, Niousha
Teng, Yinghui
Lin, Yi
Li, Zhizhou
Zhang, Yichi
Xie, Yapei
Ooi, Leon Qi Rong
Yeo, B. T. Thomas
Zhou, Juan Helen
contents We present Brain Harmony (BrainHarmonix), the first multimodal brain foundation model that unifies structural morphology and functional dynamics into compact 1D token representations. The model was pretrained on two of the largest neuroimaging datasets to date, encompassing 64,594 T1-weighted structural MRI 3D volumes (~ 14 million images) and 70,933 functional MRI (fMRI) time series. BrainHarmonix is grounded in two foundational neuroscience principles: structure complements function - structural and functional modalities offer distinct yet synergistic insights into brain organization; function follows structure - brain functional dynamics are shaped by cortical morphology. The modular pretraining process involves single-modality training with geometric pre-alignment followed by modality fusion through shared brain hub tokens. Notably, our dynamics encoder uniquely handles fMRI time series with heterogeneous repetition times (TRs), addressing a major limitation in existing models. BrainHarmonix is also the first to deeply compress high-dimensional neuroimaging signals into unified, continuous 1D tokens, forming a compact latent space of the human brain. BrainHarmonix achieves strong generalization across diverse downstream tasks, including neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorder classification and cognition prediction - consistently outperforming previous approaches. Our models - pretrained on 8 H100 GPUs - aim to catalyze a new era of AI-driven neuroscience powered by large-scale multimodal neuroimaging.
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spellingShingle Brain Harmony: A Multimodal Foundation Model Unifying Morphology and Function into 1D Tokens
Dong, Zijian
Li, Ruilin
Chong, Joanna Su Xian
Dehestani, Niousha
Teng, Yinghui
Lin, Yi
Li, Zhizhou
Zhang, Yichi
Xie, Yapei
Ooi, Leon Qi Rong
Yeo, B. T. Thomas
Zhou, Juan Helen
Neurons and Cognition
We present Brain Harmony (BrainHarmonix), the first multimodal brain foundation model that unifies structural morphology and functional dynamics into compact 1D token representations. The model was pretrained on two of the largest neuroimaging datasets to date, encompassing 64,594 T1-weighted structural MRI 3D volumes (~ 14 million images) and 70,933 functional MRI (fMRI) time series. BrainHarmonix is grounded in two foundational neuroscience principles: structure complements function - structural and functional modalities offer distinct yet synergistic insights into brain organization; function follows structure - brain functional dynamics are shaped by cortical morphology. The modular pretraining process involves single-modality training with geometric pre-alignment followed by modality fusion through shared brain hub tokens. Notably, our dynamics encoder uniquely handles fMRI time series with heterogeneous repetition times (TRs), addressing a major limitation in existing models. BrainHarmonix is also the first to deeply compress high-dimensional neuroimaging signals into unified, continuous 1D tokens, forming a compact latent space of the human brain. BrainHarmonix achieves strong generalization across diverse downstream tasks, including neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorder classification and cognition prediction - consistently outperforming previous approaches. Our models - pretrained on 8 H100 GPUs - aim to catalyze a new era of AI-driven neuroscience powered by large-scale multimodal neuroimaging.
title Brain Harmony: A Multimodal Foundation Model Unifying Morphology and Function into 1D Tokens
topic Neurons and Cognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24693