Detection of Hypertensive Retinopathy in Rural Areas

Abstract

Hypertensive retinopathy is one of the most common eye disease found in the rural areas which usually go unnoticed and most of the time untreated for patients in remote areas with no easy access to eye hospital.

In this paper, a method is proposed in which Hypertensive retinopathy can be easily diagnosed and patients can be informed about their medical condition and they are advised to take further treatment if necessary. It is done with the help of a simple 20D lens and a mobile phone with a good   camera resolution. This method is highly efficient in the remote areas wherein the high cost and heavy retinal defect detection equipment cannot be implemented. Hence simple and low cost equipment can be used for the detection of Hypertensive retinopathy.