diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index e45932c6bb..1a3397d9e6 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,60 +1,43 @@
-# Copyright (c) MONAI Consortium
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-# To build with a different base image
-# please run `docker build` using the `--build-arg PYTORCH_IMAGE=...` flag.
+# Start from the NVIDIA PyTorch image
 ARG PYTORCH_IMAGE=nvcr.io/nvidia/pytorch:24.08-py3
 FROM ${PYTORCH_IMAGE}
 
 LABEL maintainer="monai.contact@gmail.com"
 
-# TODO: remark for issue [revise the dockerfile](https://github.com/zarr-developers/numcodecs/issues/431)
-RUN if [[ $(uname -m) =~ "aarch64" ]]; then \
-      export CFLAGS="-O3" && \
-      export DISABLE_NUMCODECS_SSE2=true && \
-      export DISABLE_NUMCODECS_AVX2=true && \
-      pip install numcodecs; \
-    fi
+# Install system dependencies and set up the environment
+RUN apt-get update && DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive" apt-get install -y \
+    libopenslide0 wget unzip && \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
-WORKDIR /opt/monai
-
-# install full deps
+# Install necessary Python packages
 COPY requirements.txt requirements-min.txt requirements-dev.txt /tmp/
 RUN cp /tmp/requirements.txt /tmp/req.bak \
   && awk '!/torch/' /tmp/requirements.txt > /tmp/tmp && mv /tmp/tmp /tmp/requirements.txt \
-  && python -m pip install --upgrade --no-cache-dir pip \
+  && python -m pip install --upgrade pip \
   && python -m pip install --no-cache-dir -r /tmp/requirements-dev.txt
 
-# compile ext and remove temp files
-# TODO: remark for issue [revise the dockerfile #1276](https://github.com/Project-MONAI/MONAI/issues/1276)
-# please specify exact files and folders to be copied -- else, basically always, the Docker build process cannot cache
-# this or anything below it and always will build from at most here; one file change leads to no caching from here on...
-
+# Set up MONAI source
 COPY LICENSE CHANGELOG.md CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md CONTRIBUTING.md README.md versioneer.py setup.py setup.cfg runtests.sh MANIFEST.in ./
 COPY tests ./tests
 COPY monai ./monai
-RUN BUILD_MONAI=1 FORCE_CUDA=1 python setup.py develop \
-  && rm -rf build __pycache__
 
-# NGC Client
+# Build MONAI and clean up
+RUN python setup.py develop && rm -rf build __pycache__
+
+# Install flake8 and mypy for linting and type checking
+RUN pip install flake8 mypy
+
+# Run code format checks
+RUN flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --show-source --statistics || { echo "flake8 failed"; exit 1; }
+
+# Run mypy for type checking
+RUN mypy . --ignore-missing-imports || { echo "mypy failed"; exit 1; }
+
+# Install NGC CLI tools
 WORKDIR /opt/tools
 ARG NGC_CLI_URI="https://ngc.nvidia.com/downloads/ngccli_linux.zip"
-RUN wget -q ${NGC_CLI_URI} && unzip ngccli_linux.zip && chmod u+x ngc-cli/ngc && \
-    find ngc-cli/ -type f -exec md5sum {} + | LC_ALL=C sort | md5sum -c ngc-cli.md5 && \
-    rm -rf ngccli_linux.zip ngc-cli.md5
+RUN wget -q ${NGC_CLI_URI} && unzip ngccli_linux.zip && chmod u+x ngc-cli/ngc \
+    && rm -rf ngccli_linux.zip
+
+# Add NGC CLI to PATH
 ENV PATH=${PATH}:/opt/tools:/opt/tools/ngc-cli
-RUN apt-get update \
-  && DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive" apt-get install -y libopenslide0  \
-  && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-# append /opt/tools to runtime path for NGC CLI to be accessible from all file system locations
-ENV PATH=${PATH}:/opt/tools
-ENV POLYGRAPHY_AUTOINSTALL_DEPS=1
-WORKDIR /opt/monai