All Competitors

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

Showing 124 of 113 filtered models

  • DaX

    1
    DAMO AcademyJune 5, 2026biomarker_predictioncancer_subtypingdino+5

    Pathology vision foundation model adapting DINOv3-style self-supervised learning to whole-slide histopathology across continuous magnifications and scales.

    Pathology
    11Openness
  • Nanjing University +2 othersMay 30, 2026foundation_modelgene_expression_predictionhistology+7

    A tri-modal foundation model unifying histology images, spatial transcriptomics, and biological language for zero-shot spatial biology and pathology reasoning.

    PathologySpatial omics
    65Openness
  • GenBloom

    3
    Helmholtz Munich +1 otherMay 28, 2026cell_type_annotationcontrastive_learningcytology+6

    Genetically aligned foundation model for blood smear cytology that links single white-blood-cell morphology to chromosomal aberrations and mutations for AML/APL diagnosis.

    Pathology
    65Openness
  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology +9 othersMay 25, 2026clinical_decision_supportfoundation_modellung_tissue+7

    A subspecialty lung-pathology foundation model, fine-tuned from Virchow2 and prospectively validated across 32 clinical tasks spanning the lung diagnostic workflow.

    Pathology
    5Openness
  • University of CopenhagenMay 14, 2026foundation_modelplant_phenotypingsegmentation+3

    A domain-specific foundation model for zero-shot plant root image segmentation, built on a MobileSAM backbone and trained across nine diverse root datasets.

    Imaging
    74Openness
  • BRIDGE

    The University of Hong KongMay 8, 2026contrastive_learningfoundation_modelgene_expression_prediction+8

    A multi-organ foundation model aligning histology image features with spatial-transcriptomics gene expression across 13 organs for zero-shot virtual ST and survival prediction.

    PathologySpatial omics
    31Openness
  • BrainDINO

    2
    Emory University +2 othersApril 30, 2026brain_age_estimationdisease_classificationfoundation_model+6

    A self-supervised DINOv3-based foundation model for brain MRI, pretrained on ~6.6M unlabeled axial slices and transferable to diverse neuroimaging tasks.

    Imaging
    49Openness
  • H2O

    Tencent AI for Life Science Lab +2 othersApril 24, 2026contrastive_learningfoundation_modelgene_expression+6

    A foundation model that predicts spatial transcriptomics and proteomics directly from routine H&E whole-slide images using a vision transformer aligned with a language model.

    PathologySpatial omics
    7Openness
  • GenoJEPA

    Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsApril 6, 2026foundation_modelgenomicsrepresentation_learning+4

    A genomic foundation model that learns DNA representations through joint-embedding prediction in latent space rather than nucleotide reconstruction.

    DNA & Gene
    22Openness
  • Halo

    Duke University School of MedicineApril 6, 2026cell_segmentationcellpose_sammultimodal+5

    A pretrained whole-cell segmentation model for spatial transcriptomics that fuses DAPI nuclear images with RNA transcript density to recover cell boundaries.

    Spatial omics
    63Openness
  • Digepath

    Chinese Academy of SciencesApril 1, 2026cancer_diagnosisfoundation_modelgastrointestinal_cancer+7

    Subspecialty-specific computational pathology foundation model pretrained on 353 million multi-scale patches from 210,000 H&E slides for gastrointestinal pathology, achieving SOTA on 32 of 33 systematic downstream tasks.

    Pathology
    15Openness
  • genbio.aiMarch 20, 2026foundation_modelhistologyrepresentation_learning+3

    1.1B-parameter histopathology foundation model trained on public data with a JEDI (JEPA+DINO) dual-stage strategy, reaching state-of-the-art on THUNDER, HEST, and PathoROB.

    Pathology
    21Openness
  • University of Texas at Arlington +1 otherMarch 13, 2026gangenerativehistology+6

    Foundation-model-guided virtual staining that generates four IHC markers (HER2, Ki67, ER, PR) from H&E using a single SPADE-UNet conditioned on a frozen UNI encoder.

    Pathology
    17Openness
  • mnDINO

    Morgridge Institute for ResearchMarch 12, 2026cell_biologyfluorescence_microscopyfoundation_model+4

    A DINO-pretrained vision transformer for accurate, robust segmentation of micronuclei in DNA-stained fluorescence microscopy across cell lines and instruments.

    Imaging
    32Openness
  • MIT +1 otherMarch 11, 2026cell_type_annotationfoundation_modelgene_expression_prediction+7

    A self-supervised, cell-centric pretraining strategy that distills morphology and microenvironment views of each cell into a unified embedding for virtual spatial omics from microscopy.

    Spatial omicsImagingPathology
    15Openness
  • OpticalDNA

    Hunan UniversityFebruary 2, 2026dnafoundation_modelgenomics+5

    An OCR-inspired vision-language model that renders DNA as visual layouts to analyze long genomic sequences with far fewer tokens than sequential tokenizers.

    DNA & Gene
    16Openness
  • EchoJEPA

    3133
    Bowang LabFebruary 2, 2026cardiac_ultrasoundechocardiographyejection_fraction_estimation+6

    A Joint-Embedding Predictive foundation model for echocardiography, pretrained on 18M cardiac ultrasound videos to learn artifact-robust anatomical representations.

    Imaging
    62Openness
  • Harvard Medical SchoolDecember 31, 2025cell_biologycell_trackingfoundation_model+6

    A native 3D vision transformer self-supervised on unlabeled fluorescence microscopy volumes that generalizes to unseen object classes without retraining or voxel annotations.

    Imaging
    8Openness
  • NeuroVFM

    204
    University of Michigan +1 otherNovember 23, 2025ctfoundation_modeljoint_embedding_predictive_architecture+8

    A generalist neuroimaging vision foundation model pretrained on 5.24M clinical MRI and CT volumes for radiologic diagnosis and report generation.

    Imaging
    57Openness
  • PLUTO-4

    2
    PathAINovember 4, 2025digital_pathologyfoundation_modelhistology+6

    Frontier-scale digital pathology foundation models from PathAI, spanning a compact 22M-parameter variant and a 1.1B-parameter flagship trained on 551K whole-slide images.

    Pathology
    19Openness
  • GPFM

    12637
    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology +3 othersNovember 1, 2025cancer_diagnosisfeature_extractionfoundation_model+8

    A generalizable computational-pathology foundation model trained on ~190M histopathology patches via unified knowledge distillation from UNI, Phikon, and CONCH.

    Pathology
    84Openness
  • CortexMAE

    481
    Sophont +1 otherOctober 15, 2025brain_state_decodingfmrifoundation_model+5

    An fMRI foundation model that trains Vision Transformers on cortical flat-map videos via masked autoencoding, exhibiting power-law scaling on brain activity reconstruction.

    Biosignals
    68Openness
  • 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
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityOctober 1, 2025brain_age_predictionbrain_mridensenet+8

    A self-supervised foundation model for structural brain MRI combining DenseNet and Vision Transformer with Mixture of Experts for multi-task brain disease diagnosis and brain age prediction.

    Imaging
    8Openness