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Main Authors: Wang, Yuli, Jung, Hyewon, Peng, Dongshen, Dai, Yuwei, Wu, Jing, Guan, Haoyue, Kato, Yoko, Jiao, Zhicheng, Sun, Yu, Kamel, Ihab, Lima, Joao, Lin, Cheng Ting, Bai, Harrison
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24789
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author Wang, Yuli
Jung, Hyewon
Peng, Dongshen
Dai, Yuwei
Wu, Jing
Guan, Haoyue
Kato, Yoko
Jiao, Zhicheng
Sun, Yu
Kamel, Ihab
Lima, Joao
Lin, Cheng Ting
Bai, Harrison
author_facet Wang, Yuli
Jung, Hyewon
Peng, Dongshen
Dai, Yuwei
Wu, Jing
Guan, Haoyue
Kato, Yoko
Jiao, Zhicheng
Sun, Yu
Kamel, Ihab
Lima, Joao
Lin, Cheng Ting
Bai, Harrison
contents Vision Transformer (ViT) models, utilizing self-attention mechanisms, have demonstrated robust generalization capabilities across various vision tasks, including image classification. However, these models, typically pretrained on general public datasets, often lack the specialized domain knowledge necessary for medical imaging applications. In this study, we investigate the adaptation of ViT models, specifically for cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) images, using an in-house dataset. We found that pretrained ViT features do not effectively transfer to the cardiac MR domain. To overcome this limitation, we introduce an adaptation strategy that utilizes image-based self-supervised contrastive learning, demonstrating superior performance compared to traditional supervised training approaches. Moreover, our adapted ViT model exhibits strong generalization to external MR datasets such as BraTS and ADNI. Through ablation studies, we further investigate the impact of batch size and dataset scale on performance. Ultimately, our adapted model achieves classification AUC exceeding 0.75 across the four most common cardiac MR sequences.
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spellingShingle Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning for Cardiac MR Sequence Classification
Wang, Yuli
Jung, Hyewon
Peng, Dongshen
Dai, Yuwei
Wu, Jing
Guan, Haoyue
Kato, Yoko
Jiao, Zhicheng
Sun, Yu
Kamel, Ihab
Lima, Joao
Lin, Cheng Ting
Bai, Harrison
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
Vision Transformer (ViT) models, utilizing self-attention mechanisms, have demonstrated robust generalization capabilities across various vision tasks, including image classification. However, these models, typically pretrained on general public datasets, often lack the specialized domain knowledge necessary for medical imaging applications. In this study, we investigate the adaptation of ViT models, specifically for cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) images, using an in-house dataset. We found that pretrained ViT features do not effectively transfer to the cardiac MR domain. To overcome this limitation, we introduce an adaptation strategy that utilizes image-based self-supervised contrastive learning, demonstrating superior performance compared to traditional supervised training approaches. Moreover, our adapted ViT model exhibits strong generalization to external MR datasets such as BraTS and ADNI. Through ablation studies, we further investigate the impact of batch size and dataset scale on performance. Ultimately, our adapted model achieves classification AUC exceeding 0.75 across the four most common cardiac MR sequences.
title Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning for Cardiac MR Sequence Classification
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24789