“A foundation model for generalizable disease detection from retinal images” has been accepted and published at Nature (Impact factor: 64) :star2: Special congrats to the first-author Yukun Zhou who did a truly amazing job!

In the paper, we present the first generative modelling based foundational model in medicine. The proposed RETFound is based on masked auto-encoder, which was pretrained on natural images first, followed by further pre-training on 1.6 milliion retinal images. RETFound shows great generaisation on more than 10 down stream tasks after fine tuning on very limited amount of task specific data. ***