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Learning diverse and generic representations of the brain with large-scale multi-task pretraining

2025-12-22 neurology Title + abstract only
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Large pretrained models developed and shared by actors with privileged access to data and compute have played a central role in the democratisation of deep learning in a range of domains. Here, we contribute to this endeavour in the field of neuroimaging, by compiling a large dataset of structural magnetic resonance imaging scans (n=114,257) and using them to pretrain a multi-task convolutional neural network to predict age, sex, handedness, BMI, fluid intelligence and neuroticism. Subsequent an...

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