Peer-Reviewed Publication
Nat Biomed Eng2026March 25, 2026Journal Article
A generalizable deep learning system for cardiac MRI.
Rohan Shad1, Cyril Zakka2, Dhamanpreet Kaur2, Mrudang Mathur2, Robyn Fong2, Joseph Cho2, Ross Warren Filice3, John Mongan4, Kimberly Kallianos4, Nishith Khandwala5, David Eng5, Matthew Leipzig2, Walter R Witschey6, Alejandro de Feria7, Victor A Ferrari7, Euan A Ashley8, Michael A Acker9, Curtis Langlotz10, William Hiesinger11
1Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. rohan.shad@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
2Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
3Department of Radiology, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA.
4Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
5Bunkerhill Health, San Francisco, CA, USA.
6Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
7Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
8Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Genetics, and Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
9Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
10Department of Radiology, Medicine, and Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
11Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. willhies@stanford.edu.
Abstract
Cardiac MRI allows for a comprehensive assessment of myocardial structure, function and tissue characteristics. Here we describe a foundational vision system for cardiac MRI, capable of representing the breadth of human cardiovascular disease and health. Our deep-learning model is trained via self-supervised contrastive learning, in which visual concepts in cine-sequence cardiac MRI scans are lear…
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