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Galsen Deep Vision: Study and Proposal of Automatic Diagnosis Methods for Strabismus and Calculation of Angular Deviation Based on Deep Learning Approaches

Mandicou Ba of Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Senegal will develop an AI-based tool for automatic, cost-effective, and accessible early diagnosis of the eye disorder strabismus and for guiding surgical correction. Strabismus is eye misalignment, the two eyes pointing in different directions, and the associated impaired vision can become permanent at a young age if uncorrected. They will collect a clinical dataset of facial images of strabismus patients in Senegal, annotated by experts. After identifying a suitable AI-based method, they will apply it to the dataset to create an AI model for diagnosis and accurate calculation of angular deviation between the two eyes for use during surgical repair. They will use the model to develop an automated system as a web-based tool and also as a smartphone app, making it accessible even in rural areas for early diagnosis in children.

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