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UNI and CONCH (Harvard, Mahmood Lab)

Two open academic pathology models: UNI reads tissue images, CONCH links images with pathology text.

UNI (Nature Medicine 2024) was pretrained on 100M tiles from 100k slides; UNI2-h scaled further. CONCH (Nature Medicine 2024) is a vision-language model trained on 1.17M image-caption pairs enabling zero-shot classification and retrieval. Both released for research and widely used as baselines.

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How it works

UNI is trained with DINOv2 self-supervision; CONCH uses contrastive image-text alignment.

Strengths
  • Open weights for research
  • Reproducible baselines
Limitations
  • Non-commercial licence
  • Tile-level, needs aggregation
Since
2024

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