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Self-supervision drives representational convergence in medical foundation models more than clinical supervision
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Self-supervised pretraining drives convergence in medical image encoders more than clinical supervision, across 18 image and 7 text models tested.
- Why it matters
- Engineers building interoperable medical imaging systems should know that shared representations come from training objectives, not model scale or clinical labels.
- Watch out
- Convergence is modest, within-modality only, does not match radiologist judgment, and varies across patient subgroups and hospitals.
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