README.md

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pipeline_tag: image-segmentation
tags:
- medical
- biology
- clinical
---

# vesselFM
**TL;DR**: VesselFM is a foundation model for universal 3D blood vessel segmentation in arbitrary imaging domains.
For details, please refer to our preprint (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.17386) and our GitHub repo (https://github.com/bwittmann/vesselFM).

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### Checkpoints
We provide the following checkpoints:

- `vesselFM_base.pt`: VesselFM pre-trained on our three proposed data sources (D_real, D_drand, and D_flow). This checkpoint will be automatically downloaded in `vesselfm/seg/inference.py`.


### Citing vesselFM
If you find our work useful, please cite:
```bibtex
@article{wittmann2024vesselfm,
  title={vesselFM: A Foundation Model for Universal 3D Blood Vessel Segmentation},
  author={Wittmann, Bastian and Wattenberg, Yannick and Amiranashvili, Tamaz and Shit, Suprosanna and Menze, Bjoern},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.17386},
  year={2024}
}
```