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However, the manual effort required to sift through a vast amount of data to identify defect images remains costly. This study delves into a self-supervised binary classification algorithm for addressing the task of defect image classification within ductile cast iron pipe (DCIP) images. Leveraging the CutPaste-Mix data augmentation strategy, we combine defect-free data with enhanced data to input into a deep convolutional neural network. Through Gaussian Density Estimation, we compute anomaly scores to achieve the classification of abnormal regions. Our approach has been implemented in real-world scenarios, involving equipment installation, data collection, and experimentation. The results demonstrate the robust performance of our method, in both the DCIP image dataset and practical field application, achieving an impressive 99.5 AUC (Area Under Curve). 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