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Leveraging the RETFound foundation model for optic disc segmentation in retinal images

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Author

Zhenyi Zhao, Muthu Rama Krishnan Mookiah, Emanuele Trucco

Outline

This study is the first to apply RETFound, a baseline model for existing fundus camera and optical coherence tomography images, to the task of optical disc segmentation. By training a new head with only a small amount of task-specific data, we achieve performance (approximately 96% Dice coefficient) that outperforms state-of-the-art segmentation-specific baseline networks on several public datasets (IDRID, Drishti-GS, RIM-ONE-r3, REFUGE) and a private dataset (GoDARTS). The baseline model demonstrates superior performance in internal validation, domain generalization, and domain adaptation, demonstrating its potential as an alternative to task-specific architectures.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
We successfully applied RETFound, a basic model (FM), to optical disk segmentation tasks, proving its efficiency compared to existing task-specific models.
We emphasize data efficiency by achieving high accuracy (approximately 96% Dice coefficient) with a small amount of data.
It shows consistent performance across diverse datasets, demonstrating excellent domain generalization and adaptability.
The basic model suggests potential applications in various ophthalmic disease diagnosis and image analysis tasks.
Limitations:
Since code disclosure is scheduled after the paper is accepted, immediate verification of reproducibility is difficult.
Generalization performance to other types of fundus image analysis tasks requires further study.
The underlying model used, RETFound itself Limitations, may have influenced the results of this study.
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