CatAI

CatAI is a program designed to detect cataracts

Designed in 2021 for the WAICY Competition 2021, I (Richard Barlian, age 11) created a program to detect cataracts. Cataracts has always been a problem in our community; my grandfather, grandmother, and lots of, particularly elderly people in our community, have been diagnosed with it. I used a CNN to create an Image Classifier, trained with data from people with Cataracts, and those who didn't.

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Instructions

Instructions for setup

• To run this program, you need to use Python 3.7.
• The code is developed and tested under Python 3.7.0 (https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.0/python-3.7.0-amd64.exe)
• After that, you need to install the necessary modules (modules are found in requirements.txt - you can install using this command pip install -r requirements.txt)
• If you have a CUDA enabled GPU, you may have to use tensorflow-directml

Instructions for running

• cd into the .\program\ directory
• Run python main.py
• Click Detect
• It will ask you to find your file, keep in mind that it should be a jpg image
• If you want to take a photo of your eyes, please take a picture of only one, without any accessories such as contact lenses or glasses, and use a higher resolution camera
• There are also images in program\sample_images if you want to use a sample image
• Wait for a few seconds (it may take a bit long, depending on your device)
• It will show the image with the diagnosis

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Disclaimer:

• This project is not in any way supposed to be an alternative to medical advice.
• This is not meant to be used as a replacement to medical advice, but as an extension.
• The purpose of this project is only to detect cataracts in its early stages, so you can seek medical advice sooner.