11-Year-Old Girl Develops iPhone App to Identify Eye Disorders

Using an innovative scanning process and cutting-edge computer vision and machine learning algorithms, 11-year-old Leena Rafeeq, a self-taught coder from Dubai, has created an AI-based mobile app that is intended to identify various eye disorders and conditions.

Amazing news! I’m excited to share that my new artificially intelligent smartphone app, Ogler EyeScan, has been submitted, Rafeeq wrote in a LinkedIn post. She added that she started working on the AI mobile app when she was 10 years old. The 11-year-smartphone old’s software, named Ogler EyeScan, can find the eyes inside the frame range by analyzing a number of factors, including distance, look-up locations, light and color intensity, and intensity.

Also, it determines if there are any problems with light bursts and whether the eyes are perfectly inside the scanner frame. The smartphone app uses trained models after the scan’s quality has been determined to identify potential eye diseases or problems such as arcus, melanoma, pterygium, and cataract.

The 11-year-old programmer said that she used the SwiftUI programming language to build Ogler entirely from scratch, without the use of any other libraries or packages. It took six months to complete the study and write the software for the app. She said, “I gained more knowledge about various eye diseases, computer vision, algorithms, machine learning models, and advanced levels of Apple iOS development, including sensors data, AR, CreateML, CoreML, and more.

The mobile software, which is presently being reviewed by the AppStore, is compatible with iPhone models running iOS 16 and later. Leena’s LinkedIn post has gained a lot of attention, and many people have praised the talented coder for her accomplishment. Her older sister, Hana Rafeeq, gained attention a few years ago when she became the youngest iOS developer in the world by developing a mobile app.

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Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, was informed about Hana’s accomplishment and complimented the young woman for her remarkable achievement. With the development of Ogler EyeScan, her 11-year-old sister has now continued in her footsteps.