Model Card for RETFound_DINOv3

Model Details

Model Description

• Developed by: Yukun Zhou
• Model type: Pre-trained model
• License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Model Sources

• Repository: RETFound

Uses

This repo contains the model weight. After granted the access, please fill the token in the code.

The code will automatically download the model and run the training.

Environmental Impact

• Hardware Type: 4 * NVIDIA A100 80GB
• Hours used: 10 days
• Cloud Provider: UCL CS Cluster

Citation

@article{zhou2023foundation,
  title={A foundation model for generalizable disease detection from retinal images},
  author={Zhou, Yukun and Chia, Mark A and Wagner, Siegfried K and Ayhan, Murat S and Williamson, Dominic J and Struyven, Robbert R and Liu, Timing and Xu, Moucheng and Lozano, Mateo G and Woodward-Court, Peter and others},
  journal={Nature},
  volume={622},
  number={7981},
  pages={156--163},
  year={2023},
  publisher={Nature Publishing Group UK London}
}

@article{zhou2026understanding,
  title={Understanding pre-training data effects in retinal foundation models using two large fundus cohorts},
  author={Zhou, Yukun and Wang, Zheyuan and Wu, Yilan and Ong, Ariel Yuhan and Wagner, Siegfried K and Ruffell, Eden and Chia, Mark A and Guan, Zhouyu and Ju, Lie and Engelmann, Justin and others},
  journal={Nature Communications},
  year={2026},
  publisher={Nature Publishing Group UK London}
}

@misc{zhou2025generalistversusspecialistvision,
      title={Generalist versus Specialist Vision Foundation Models for Ocular Disease and Oculomics}, 
      author={Yukun Zhou and Paul Nderitu and Jocelyn Hui Lin Goh and Justin Engelmann and Siegfried K. Wagner and Anran Ran and Hongyang Jiang and Lie Ju and Ke Zou and Sahana Srinivasan and Hyunmin Kim and Takahiro Ninomiya and Zheyuan Wang and Gabriel Dawei Yang and Eden Ruffell and Dominic Williamson and Rui Santos and Gabor Mark Somfai and Carol Y. Cheung and Tien Yin Wong and Daniel C. Alexander and Yih Chung Tham and Pearse A. Keane},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2509.03421},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={eess.IV},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03421}, 
}

Model Card Contact

ykzhoua@gmail.com or yukun.zhou.19@ucl.ac.uk