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Moorfields and UCL publish RETFound, an open foundation model trained on 1.6m retinal images

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Source: UCL NewsAlso reported by Moorfields Eye Hospital

Nature published RETFound on 13 September 2023, a foundation model built by UCL and Moorfields Eye Hospital from about 1.6 million NHS retinal images. The authors report it detects eye diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma and predicts systemic conditions including heart failure, stroke and Parkinson’s disease from eye scans. The model is released on GitHub for any institution to use.

Why it matters

Hospitals and researchers outside large technology companies got a freely available medical imaging foundation model to adapt for their own patients, built from public health service data.

When
13 Sep 2023
ID
WTA-N-2023-0139
Who
UCL, Moorfields Eye Hospital, NIHR; Pearse Keane

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from UCL News and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at UCL News

Source copy: download the page text as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2023-0139: “Moorfields and UCL publish RETFound, an open foundation model trained on 1.6m retinal images.” wheresthe.ai, 13 Sep 2023. https://wheresthe.ai/d/gb-retfound-retinal-foundation-model-2023-09/ (source: UCL News).

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