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 ## RETFound - A foundation model for retinal imaging
 
 
-This is the official repo for RETFound, which is based on [MAE](https://github.com/facebookresearch/mae):
+This is the official repo for [RETFound: a foundation model for generalizable disease detection from retinal images](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06555-x), which is based on [MAE](https://github.com/facebookresearch/mae):
 
 Please contact 	**ykzhoua@gmail.com** or **yukun.zhou.19@ucl.ac.uk** if you have questions.
 
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 print("Model = %s" % str(model))
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+
+### Citation
+
+If you find this repository useful, please consider citing this paper:
+```
+@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},
+  pages={1--8},
+  year={2023},
+  publisher={Nature Publishing Group UK London}
+}
+```
+
+