Performance and label efficiency of traditional deep-learning models and a retina-specific foundation model for ocular and systemic disease detection: a retrospective comparative study.
BACKGROUND RETFound, a self-supervised retina-specific foundation model, has shown potential in downstream tasks, but its performance in comparison with that of traditional deep-learning models remains unclear. We aimed to evaluate RETFound against three supervised deep-learning models (ResNet50, ViT-Base, and SwinV2)...