cs.CVApr 22, 2025

Clinician-Friendly Foundation Models for Ophthalmic Image Diagnostics without Fine-Tuning or Technical Barriers

Authors: Meng WangTian LinQingshan HouAidi LinLianyu WangJingcheng WangQingsheng PengTruong X. Nguyen+64 more

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) shows remarkable potential in medical imaging diagnostics, yet most current models require retraining when applied across different clinical settings, limiting their scalability. We developed GlobeReady, a deployment-oriented platform powered by the RetiGlobe foun- dation model and local feature augmentation. RetiGlobe was pretrained in two stages: 1) self-supervised learning using DINOv2 on 38 million synthetic ophthalmic images, and 2) contrastive learning using CLIP on 475,845 real image-text pairs spanning diverse ethnicities, imaging devices, and geographic regions worldwide. We evaluate GlobeReady on 488,448 ophthalmic images, including color fundus photographs (CFPs) and optical coherence tomography scans, from multi-centres in China, Singapore, Vietnam and the UK. Prospective testing included usability assessment with 31 ophthalmologists. Exploratory analyses evaluated domain generalisability, Bayesian uncertainty quantification, out-of-distribution (OOD) detection, and feature-based case retrieval.

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