Using mobile application as an instrument for ptosis diagnosis

Abstract

This article proposes a novel of mobile application to help ophthalmologists diagnose the Ptosis disease. This application applied digital image processing techniques to identify eye parameters: Marginal Reflex Distance-1, Marginal Reflex Distance-2, and L/M Ratio which doctors can use to diagnose patients besides using naked eyes. The application was built for iOS platform in the first version. The inputs of the application are the images of patient's eyes from a mobile device camera or from a mobile device memory. After using digital image processing techniques, at the end of the process, the eye parameters will be displayed on the mobile device screen for the doctors to be used. The experimental results indicated that the proposed mobile application can perform with 86.36% of accuracy in measuring Marginal Reflex Distance-1 value while it can measure Marginal Reflex Distance-2 value with 63.64% of accuracy.