Radio DINO: A foundation model for advanced radiomics and AI-driven medical imaging analysis.

Authors

Zedda L,Loddo A,Di Ruberto C

Affiliations (2)

  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliari, Via Ospedale 72, 09124, Cagliari, Italy. Electronic address: [email protected].
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliari, Via Ospedale 72, 09124, Cagliari, Italy.

Abstract

Radiomics is transforming medical imaging by extracting complex features that enhance disease diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment evaluation. However, traditional approaches face significant challenges, such as the need for manual feature engineering, high dimensionality, and limited sample sizes. This paper presents Radio DINO, a novel family of deep learning foundation models that leverage self-supervised learning (SSL) techniques from DINO and DINOV2, pretrained on the RadImageNet dataset. The novelty of our approach lies in (1) developing Radio DINO to capture rich semantic embeddings, enabling robust feature extraction without manual intervention, (2) demonstrating superior performance across various clinical tasks on the MedMNISTv2 dataset, surpassing existing models, and (3) enhancing the interpretability of the model by providing visualizations that highlight its focus on clinically relevant image regions. Our results show that Radio DINO has the potential to democratize advanced radiomics tools, making them accessible to healthcare institutions with limited resources and ultimately improving diagnostic and prognostic outcomes in radiology.

Topics

Journal Article

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