Merlin: a computed tomography vision–language foundation model and dataset

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Authors: Louis Blankemeier, Ashwin Kumar, Joseph Paul Cohen, Jiaming Liu, Longchao Liu, Dave Van Veen, Syed Jamal Safdar Gardezi, Hongkun Yu, Magdalini Paschali, Zhihong Chen, Jean-Benoit Delbrouck, Eduardo Reis
+28 more Robbie Holland, César Augusto Madid Truyts, Christian Blüthgen, Yufu Wu, Long Lian, Malte Engmann Kjeldskov Jensen, Sophie Ostmeier, Maya Varma, Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu, Zhongnan Fang, Zepeng Huo, Zaid Nabulsi, Diego Ardila, Wei‐Hung Weng, Edson Amaro Junior, Neera Ahuja, Jason Fries, Nigam H. Shah, Greg Zaharchuk, Marc Willis, Adam Yala, Andrew Johnston, Robert D. Boutin, Andrew L. Wentland, Curtis P. Langlotz, Jason Hom, Sergios Gatidis, Akshay S. Chaudhari
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10181-8
Cited by: 34
References: 44

Fields of Study & Subjects

Multimodal Machine Learning Applications Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

Publication details

Journal / source
Nature
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Volume
652
Issue
8112
Pages
1318–1328
Publication date
4 March 2026
Language
EN