ISSN 1662-4009 (online)

ey0021.15-10 | Artificial Intelligence | ESPEYB21

15.10. A foundation model for generalizable disease detection from retinal images

Y Zhou , MA Chia , SK Wagner , MS Ayhan , DJ Williamson , RR Struyven , T Liu , M Xu , MG Lozano , P Woodward-Court , Y Kihara , UKB Eye , C Vision , A Altmann , AY Lee , EJ Topol , AK Denniston , DC Alexander , PA. Keane

In Brief: The authors present ‘RETFound’, a self-supervised learning approach that has so far analysed 1.6 million retinal images to enable disease detection. RETFound shows good accuracy for diagnosis and prognosis of sight-threatening eye diseases. It also contributes to incident prediction of complex systemic disorders such as heart failure and myocardial infarction.The well-known saying ‘the eyes are the window to the soul’ means ...