CatSpotter

Inspiration

Undiagnosed and unoperated cataracts are the leading cause of blindness in the world. This problem is especially severe in developing countries such as China and India. One of the mains reasons is poor access to diagnostic care in low resource regions.

What it does

CatSpotter provides a cheap, easy and integrated way to identify cataracts and refer patients. It facilitates telemedicine by automated-diagnosis.

How we built it

We used Sketch to build up the UI prototype of the smartphone app, used pytorch to build a state-of-art deep learning model of computer vision for cataract detection, used sketchup to build the 3D demo, and use python to crawl cataract images from the open website. Clinicians to classify the images.

Challenges we ran into

How to take photos of cataracts.

How to obtain the training data to improve prediction.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Automated detection algorithm

What we learned

Sketch

Team Work

What's next for CatSpotter

We hope to provide free subscription for everyone interested to raise awareness about cataracts. Moving forward we would like to build a network of patients, regional (rural) doctors, specialists and health care provider institutes. In the long term we hope to perfect our algorithm to deliver a more accurate cataract detection system that can be widely used in low resource settings.

Built With

• powerpoint
• pytorch
• sketch
• sketchup