Vision Foundation Models in Radiology: A Scoping Review of Data, Methodology, Evaluation and Clinical Translation
Vision foundation models (VFMs) are increasingly being developed for radiological imaging, yet their definition, development and evaluation remain heterogeneous. We conducted a PRISMAScR scoping review of peer-reviewed studies published between January 2017 and March 2026 describing foundation models trained exclusively on radiological imaging data. Sixty-seven studies were included and mapped across three pillars: data scale and heterogeneity, architectural and pretraining scalability, and downstream transferability and generalization. Datasets primarily covered brain MRI, thoracoabdominal CT, and chest X-ray, ranging from fewer than 100,000 samples to multi-million-image cohorts. Transformer-based architectures and self-supervised pretraining predominated, particularly masked image modeling, contrastive learning and multi-stage approaches. Evaluation focused mainly on segmentation and classification, whereas cross-center, cross-scanner, anatomical and modality-shift validation was inconsistently reported. Alignment with FUTURE-AI principles was uneven. Overall, radiology-specific VFMs show promising transferability, but clinical translation remains constrained by limited data representativeness, heterogeneous benchmarks, incomplete reporting and insufficient deployment-oriented evaluation.
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