Eye cataracts diagnosis system

Abstract

Cataract is a non-preventable disease of aging, having its biggest impact in the over-60 age group. Published clinic and hospital data, population-based surveys and World Health Organization estimates indicate that 1.2% of the entire population of Africa is blind, and that cataract causes 36% of this blindness. Ocular disease and ophthalmic manpower status questionnaires mailed to every African country in 1982 by the International Eye Foundation support these contentions, and further demonstrate that cataract is the biggest single cause of blindness on the continent. [2] There are various ways a doctor will perform a comprehensive eye exam to check for cataracts and to assess your vision. This will include an eye chart test to check your vision at different distances and tonometry to measure your eye pressure. Your doctor will also put drops in your eyes to make your pupils bigger. Other tests your doctor might perform include checking your sensitivity to glare and your perception of colors. These different methods used during eye cataracts diagnosis done by the doctors sometimes fail to recognize or mistake some cases of eye cataracts due to misinterpretation. This increases the risk of failure for early eye cataracts detection as well delays in treatment, creating a false sense of security, anxiety and other forms of psychological distress thus resulting into increased eye blindness rates due to eye cataracts. In order to reduce on the rate of blindness caused by eye cataracts we have created a system to detect eye cataracts at all times.