Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
470-08-138 ISMRM Abstract

Cortex MAE: Learning Generalizable Morphological Representations of Cortical Surface via Deformation-Aware Masked Autoencoder

Primary: Analysis Methods - Foundation Models
Secondary: Analysis Methods - Classification and Prediction
470-08-138 · Analysis: Neuro · Tuesday, 12 May, 4:00 PM–4:55 PM · Traditional Posters | Exhibition Hall
Keywords: Pre-trained Model Cortical Surface Point cloud
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Kehan Li1,2, Chen Shen3, Zehua Ren 1,2,4, Xinmei Qiu2,4,5, Yuzhu He4,5, Chunfeng Lian2,5,6, Jianhua Ma1,2,6, Fan Wang1,2
1Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
2Research Center for Intelligent Medical Equipment and Devices (IMED), Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
3Key Laboratory of National Ministry of Health for Forensic Sciences, School of Medicine Forensics, Health Science Center, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
4Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
5School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
6Pazhou Lab (Huangpu), Guangzhou, China
Presenting Author: Zehua Ren

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