Screening for Retinitis Pigmentosa with Smartphones

Ingenious+Health and well-being2024NSNational Finalist

Submitted by: Harry Nickerson

Region: Nova Scotia

Project description

Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) is a rare degenerative eye condition. This innovation is an image classifier capable of using fundus photos to screen for RP using a smartphone. Currently this solution correctly classifies RP 92% of the time.

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