Cataract disease is the world's leading cause of blindness with a majority of the world's population affected by it; however, it is easily treatable with surgery.
In Mexico, of the 16 million people who suffer from some form of vision loss, 63% of the population (~10 million people) are blind due to cataract disease.
There are four obstacles to receiving cataract surgery:
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Lack of awareness
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Bad service
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Cost
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Distance for treatment
63% of the Mexican population has a smartphone, so a smartphone application would be the best mode to reach our audience.
We utilize recall as our primary metric as we aim to minimize the false negative rate (missing potential cataract cases) because it would have a high negative impact on users. Of the various models, Resnet-50 performed highly at 94.8% accuracy for the test recall.
