---
tags:
- Foundation model for eye
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
---
## RETFound - A foundation model for retinal imaging
This is the official repo for RETFound, which is based on [MAE](https://github.com/facebookresearch/mae):
Please contact **ykzhoua@gmail.com** or **yukun.zhou.19@ucl.ac.uk** if you have questions.
Keras version implemented by Yuka Kihara can be found [here](https://github.com/uw-biomedical-ml/RETFound_MAE)
### Key features
- RETFound is pre-trained on 1.6 million retinal images with self-supervised learning
- RETFound has been validated in multiple disease detection tasks
- RETFound can be efficiently adapted to customised tasks
### News
- A [visualisation demo](https://github.com/rmaphoh/RETFound_MAE/blob/main/RETFound_visualize.ipynb) is added
### Install environment
1. Create environment with conda:
```
conda create -n retfound python=3.7.5 -y
conda activate retfound
```
2. Install dependencies
```
git clone https://github.com/rmaphoh/RETFound_MAE/
cd RETFound_MAE
pip install -r requirement.txt
```
### Fine-tuning with RETFound weights
To fine tune RETFound on your own data, follow these steps:
1. Download the RETFound pre-trained weights
2. Organise your data into this directory structure (using IDRiD as an [example](Example.ipynb))
3. Start fine-tuning (use IDRiD as example). A fine-tuned checkpoint will be saved during training. Evaluation will be run after training.
```
python -m torch.distributed.launch --nproc_per_node=1 --master_port=48798 main_finetune.py \
--batch_size 16 \
--world_size 1 \
--model vit_large_patch16 \
--epochs 50 \
--blr 5e-3 --layer_decay 0.65 \
--weight_decay 0.05 --drop_path 0.2 \
--nb_classes 5 \
--data_path ./IDRiD_data/ \
--task ./finetune_IDRiD/ \
--finetune ./RETFound_cfp_weights.pth
```
4. For evaluation only
```
python -m torch.distributed.launch --nproc_per_node=1 --master_port=48798 main_finetune.py \
--eval --batch_size 16 \
--world_size 1 \
--model vit_large_patch16 \
--epochs 50 \
--blr 5e-3 --layer_decay 0.65 \
--weight_decay 0.05 --drop_path 0.2 \
--nb_classes 5 \
--data_path ./IDRiD_data/ \
--task ./internal_IDRiD/ \
--resume ./finetune_IDRiD/checkpoint-best.pth
```
### Load the model and weights (if you want to call the model in your code)
```python
import torch
import models_vit
from util.pos_embed import interpolate_pos_embed
from timm.models.layers import trunc_normal_
# call the model
model = models_vit.__dict__['vit_large_patch16'](
num_classes=2,
drop_path_rate=0.2,
global_pool=True,
)
# load RETFound weights
checkpoint = torch.load('RETFound_cfp_weights.pth', map_location='cpu')
checkpoint_model = checkpoint['model']
state_dict = model.state_dict()
for k in ['head.weight', 'head.bias']:
if k in checkpoint_model and checkpoint_model[k].shape != state_dict[k].shape:
print(f"Removing key {k} from pretrained checkpoint")
del checkpoint_model[k]
# interpolate position embedding
interpolate_pos_embed(model, checkpoint_model)
# load pre-trained model
msg = model.load_state_dict(checkpoint_model, strict=False)
assert set(msg.missing_keys) == {'head.weight', 'head.bias', 'fc_norm.weight', 'fc_norm.bias'}
# manually initialize fc layer
trunc_normal_(model.head.weight, std=2e-5)
print("Model = %s" % str(model))
```