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An 11-year-old Malayali girl living in Dubai has developed an AI-powered app that she says can detect various eye diseases and conditions. Leena Rafeeq took to LinkedIn to announce her unique creation that uses a scanning process via an iPhone. Called 'Ogler EyeScan', the app was developed when Leena was 10 years old. He shared that the app is currently under review on the Apple App Store and he hopes it will be approved soon. Posting a video demonstrating how his app works, he showed Ogler EyeScan identifying conditions like arches, melanoma, pterygium, and cataracts using trained models. Leena claimed that the app can "analyze parameters such as light intensity and color, distance, and search points to locate the eyes within the range of the frame" using advanced machine learning and computer vision algorithms. It also identifies any light burst issues and whether the eyes are positioned exactly within the frame of the scanner, he added.
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Revealing more details about her innovation, Leena said that it was built natively with SwiftUI with no third-party libraries or packages after six months of research and development.
During the development process, the self-taught coder said she gained more knowledge about "eye conditions, computer vision, algorithms, machine learning models, and advanced levels of Apple iOS development, including sensor data, AR, CreateML, CoreML." The app is currently only compatible with iPhone 10 and above running iOS 16+.
Netizens took to the comments section to congratulate Leena on her achievement at such a young age. One user pointed out that this is a great example of how to reduce health equity using AI. To users who asked about the accuracy of the app, Leena said that so far it is almost 70%. He shared, however, the difficulties encountered with "glare and light flashes caused by the distance required to capture the scans." To address this issue, light-related problem detection and metrics are being implemented to allow users to resume scanning. He also revealed that an update will be announced once the App Store accepts Ogler EyeScan.
Leena's younger sister Hana had previously gone viral for becoming the youngest iOS app developer at the age of 9 by developing a storytelling app. The exploit even caught the attention of Apple CEO Tim Cook.
