DEVELOPMENT OF A MOBILE BASED DIABETES RETINOPATHY DETECTION SYSTEM

Abstract

Diabetes Retinopathy is a common retinal complication associated with diabetes. It is a major cause of blindness in the world most especially developing countries like Nigeria, which shares the largest percentage in Africa. Therefore early detection will be highly beneficial in effectively controlling the progress of the disease. The focus of this paper is to solve the problems of inadequate number of specialist who can handle growing number of people afflicted with the disease; and unavailability of mobile device that can aid early detection of diabetes retinopathy disease. Hence, in this paper a Mobile based Diabetes Retinopathy Detection System was developed to make it available for the masses for early detection of the disease.