diff --git a/segmentation_models_pytorch/losses/jaccard.py b/segmentation_models_pytorch/losses/jaccard.py
index b250cacf..35727f95 100644
--- a/segmentation_models_pytorch/losses/jaccard.py
+++ b/segmentation_models_pytorch/losses/jaccard.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ def __init__(
         log_loss: bool = False,
         from_logits: bool = True,
         smooth: float = 0.0,
+        ignore_index: Optional[int] = None,
         eps: float = 1e-7,
     ):
         """Jaccard loss for image segmentation task.
@@ -51,6 +52,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.classes = classes
         self.from_logits = from_logits
         self.smooth = smooth
+        self.ignore_index = ignore_index
         self.eps = eps
         self.log_loss = log_loss
 
@@ -74,17 +76,36 @@ def forward(self, y_pred: torch.Tensor, y_true: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
             y_true = y_true.view(bs, 1, -1)
             y_pred = y_pred.view(bs, 1, -1)
 
+            if self.ignore_index is not None:
+                mask = y_true != self.ignore_index
+                y_pred = y_pred * mask
+                y_true = y_true * mask
+
         if self.mode == MULTICLASS_MODE:
             y_true = y_true.view(bs, -1)
             y_pred = y_pred.view(bs, num_classes, -1)
 
-            y_true = F.one_hot(y_true, num_classes)  # N,H*W -> N,H*W, C
-            y_true = y_true.permute(0, 2, 1)  # H, C, H*W
+            if self.ignore_index is not None:
+                mask = y_true != self.ignore_index
+                y_pred = y_pred * mask.unsqueeze(1)
+
+                y_true = F.one_hot(
+                    (y_true * mask).to(torch.long), num_classes
+                )  # N,H*W -> N,H*W, C
+                y_true = y_true.permute(0, 2, 1) * mask.unsqueeze(1)  # N, C, H*W
+            else:
+                y_true = F.one_hot(y_true, num_classes)  # N,H*W -> N,H*W, C
+                y_true = y_true.permute(0, 2, 1)  # N, C, H*W
 
         if self.mode == MULTILABEL_MODE:
             y_true = y_true.view(bs, num_classes, -1)
             y_pred = y_pred.view(bs, num_classes, -1)
 
+            if self.ignore_index is not None:
+                mask = y_true != self.ignore_index
+                y_pred = y_pred * mask
+                y_true = y_true * mask
+
         scores = soft_jaccard_score(
             y_pred,
             y_true.type(y_pred.dtype),