All Competitors

Every biological foundation model, evaluated and ranked by the bio.rodeo team

Showing 124 of 65 filtered models

  • Merlin

    41912712.5K
    Stanford UniversityJanuary 1, 2026cnncontrastive_learningct+8

    A 3D vision-language foundation model for abdominal CT that pretrains on paired scans, radiology reports, and structured EHR codes for zero-shot interpretation.

    ImagingLanguage model
    54Openness
  • MIMO

    1223
    Peking University +1 otherOctober 11, 2025histologyinstruction_tuningmultimodal+6

    A medical vision-language model that accepts visual-referring multimodal input and produces pixel-grounded multimodal output, jointly answering and segmenting medical images.

    ImagingLanguage model
    11Openness
  • University of Rijeka +1 otherJuly 1, 2025cnnfoundation_modelimage_classification+4

    A family of CNN foundation models pretrained on ~1.9M multimodal radiology images for transfer learning across medical imaging tasks.

    Imaging
    53Openness
  • Chongqing University of TechnologyJuly 1, 2025histologyinstruction_tuningmedical_image_understanding+5

    A 4.2B-parameter lightweight biomedical vision-language assistant built on Phi-2 that outperforms larger LLaVA-Med models on medical visual question answering.

    ImagingLanguage model
    15Openness
  • Shanghai AI Laboratory +2 othersJune 20, 2025chain_of_thoughtclinical_reasoninghistology+6

    Medical multimodal LLM (2B and 8B) trained for generalizable, step-by-step clinical reasoning via Mentor-Intern Collaborative Search.

    PathologyImaging
    67Openness
  • Lingshu

    31554.1K
    DAMO Academy +1 otherJune 8, 2025clinical_reasoningfoundation_modelhistology+7

    A generalist medical multimodal LLM built on Qwen2.5-VL for unified medical image understanding, visual question answering, report generation, and clinical reasoning across 12+ imaging modalities.

    ImagingLanguage model
    70Openness
  • UniBiomed

    619215
    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology +2 othersApril 30, 2025foundation_modelhistologymultimodal+6

    Universal foundation model that jointly generates diagnostic text and segments the corresponding targets across ten biomedical imaging modalities.

    ImagingLanguage model
    64Openness
  • GMAI-VL-R1

    1828
    Shanghai AI Laboratory +6 othersApril 2, 2025histologylanguage_modelmedical_image_diagnosis+7

    A reinforcement-learning-enhanced general medical vision-language model that adds step-by-step reasoning for medical image diagnosis and visual question answering.

    ImagingLanguage model
    17Openness
  • Med-R1

    126125
    Emory University +4 othersMarch 18, 2025disease_diagnosisgenerativehistology+7

    A reinforcement-learning-trained medical vision-language model for generalizable reasoning across eight imaging modalities and five clinical question types.

    ImagingLanguage model
    45Openness
  • MedVLM-R1

    29171419
    Technical University of Munich +2 othersFebruary 26, 2025medical_reasoningmultimodalradiology+4

    A 2B-parameter medical vision-language model that uses reinforcement learning (GRPO) to produce explicit, human-interpretable reasoning for radiology visual question answering.

    ImagingLanguage model
    83Openness
  • LLaVA-Rad

    58631.2K
    Microsoft ResearchFebruary 20, 2025chest_x_rayfoundation_modelimage_text_retrieval+5

    Lightweight 7B vision-language foundation model from Microsoft Research, released research-only under the Microsoft Research License, that generates radiology findings from chest X-rays.

    ImagingLanguage model
    35Openness
  • HealthGPT

    1.6K10022
    Zhejiang University +4 othersFebruary 14, 2025histologyimage_reconstructionmedical_image_generation+7

    Medical large vision-language model unifying image comprehension and generation in one autoregressive framework via heterogeneous LoRA knowledge adaptation.

    PathologyImaging
    68Openness
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute +2 othersFebruary 11, 2025chest_ctdisease_classificationfoundation_model+7

    Multimodal multitask foundation model that fuses 3D low-dose chest CT with clinical data to perform 17 lung-cancer-screening tasks via free-text question answering.

    Imaging
    71Openness
  • MINIM

    158127
    Peking University +2 othersFebruary 1, 2025data_augmentationdiffusionfoundation_model+9

    A self-improving text-to-image diffusion foundation model that generates synthetic medical images across multiple modalities and organs to augment downstream clinical AI tasks.

    Imaging
    41Openness
  • MedicoSAM

    316
    Computational Cell AnalyticsJanuary 20, 2025foundation_modelinteractive_annotationmedical_imaging+4

    A Segment Anything Model (SAM) variant finetuned on diverse medical images, delivering a reusable promptable checkpoint for interactive and automatic medical image segmentation.

    Imaging
    77Openness
  • MedPLIB

    130337
    Baidu +3 othersDecember 12, 2024histologymedical_image_groundingmixture_of_experts+8

    Biomedical multimodal LLM with pixel-level insight, combining visual question answering, pixel-grounded prompts, and segmentation via a mixture-of-experts design.

    ImagingLanguage model
    80Openness
  • BiMediX2

    731620
    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial IntelligenceDecember 10, 2024histologyinstruction_tuninglanguage_model+7

    A bilingual (Arabic-English) bio-medical large multimodal model built on Llama 3.1 for medical image understanding and clinical text conversation.

    Language modelImagingPathology
    11Openness
  • BiomedParse

    6721617.3K
    Microsoft ResearchNovember 18, 2024foundation_modelmedical_imagingmultimodal+4

    A biomedical foundation model for joint segmentation, detection, and recognition across nine imaging modalities using natural language prompts.

    Imaging
    60Openness
  • SS-CXR

    11
    Children's National Hospital +2 othersOctober 27, 2024disease_classificationfoundation_modelradiology+3

    Self-supervised vision transformer pretrained on chest X-rays to produce a domain-specific foundation model for classification and lung segmentation.

    Imaging
    22Openness
  • MedRegA

    452613
    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology +1 otherOctober 24, 2024histologyimage_classificationinstruction_tuning+8

    Region-aware bilingual (Chinese-English) medical multimodal LLM that handles image- and region-level vision-language tasks across eight imaging modalities.

    PathologyLanguage model
    65Openness
  • gCIS

    107
    United Imaging Intelligence +1 otherOctober 14, 2024ct_imagingfoundation_modellesion_detection+4

    A general CT image segmentation foundation model that uses task-prompted automatic pathway decoding to segment 83 anatomical structures and lesions across whole-body CT.

    Imaging
    14Openness
  • MaCo

    1272
    Shanghai AI LaboratorySeptember 2, 2024chest_x_raycontrastive_learningfoundation_model+9

    A masked contrastive chest X-ray foundation model that aligns radiograph patches with report text for zero-shot and fine-grained diagnosis.

    Imaging
    74Openness
  • BiomedGPT

    709373
    Lehigh University +9 othersAugust 7, 2024foundation_modelhistologyimage_captioning+7

    Open-source, lightweight generalist vision-language foundation model for diverse biomedical imaging and text tasks.

    Language modelImagingPathology
    33Openness
  • LLaVA-Tri

    409843
    UC Santa Cruz +3 othersAugust 6, 2024foundation_modelhistologymultimodal+5

    A medical multimodal large language model pretrained on the 25M-image MedTrinity-25M dataset, achieving state-of-the-art accuracy on biomedical visual question answering.

    Language modelPathology
    30Openness