Mahshad Lotfinia

Self-supervision drives representational convergence in medical foundation models more than clinical supervision

Soroosh Tayebi Arasteh, Sebastian Ziegelmayer, Mahshad Lotfinia, Lisa Adams, Sven Nebelung, Jakob Nikolas Kather, et al.

Medical image encoders from different groups are increasingly treated as interchangeable, on the assumption that scale and clinical supervision concentrate their representations onto a shared structure. Whether this convergence is real, what produces it, and whether it is clinica…Read more