Automated Image Analysis Software: Valuable Tools for the Future?
Journal Title: The Ophthalmology – Open Journal - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
Blindness causes significant disability and is associated with tremendous financial and social burden. Recent studies have shown an increase in the common causes of preventable blindness including irreversible diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. A study published in Lancet in 2012, highlighted the rise in Disability Affected Life Years (DALYs) between 1990 and 2010 by 160% for age related macular degeneration and 119% for glaucoma. In parallel, there has been a relative reduction in the ophthalmologist to population ratio as published in a recent article in the Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology in 2007. Developing countries face a worse situation, where the Ophthalmologist to population ratio is a dismal 1: several million depending. The situation is further compounded by the fact that in developing countries, nearly 70% of the population lives in rural areas while 70% of the ophthalmologists are based in urban areas. Providing accessible eye care is therefore a challenging task.
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Digvijay Singh
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