# SSP-RACL: Classification of Noisy Fundus Images with Self-Supervised Pretraining and Robust Adaptive Credal Loss

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18147 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.18147/

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- First posted on arXiv 25 Sep 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 20 of 20)

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Fundus image classification is crucial in the computer aided diagnosis tasks, but label noise significantly impairs the performance of deep neural networks. To address this challenge, we propose a robust framework, Self-Supervised Pre-training with Robust Adaptive Credal Loss (SSP-RACL), for handling label noise in fundus image datasets. First, we use Masked Autoencoders (MAE) for pre-training to extract features, unaffected by label noise. Subsequently, RACL employ a superset learning framework, setting confidence thresholds and adaptive label relaxation parameter to construct possibility distributions and provide more reliable ground-truth estimates, thus effectively suppressing the memorization effect. Additionally, we introduce clinical knowledge-based asymmetric noise generation to simulate real-world noisy fundus image datasets. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms existing approaches in handling label noise, showing superior performance.