Large-scale multi-sequence pretraining for generalizable MRI analysis in versatile clinical applications

Nature Biomedical Engineering, Published online: 13 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41551-026-01740-5 A foundation model for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with large-scale multi-sequence pretraining, MARS, overcomes limitations in image heterogeneity to enable versatile real-world multi-sequence MRI analysis on diverse anatomical structures.