Development of an Application for Aid in Cataract Screening.

Cataract is the main cause of reversible vision impairment in developed countries, and at the age of 70, almost all of them will have developed some degree of it. `Cataract' is the name given to any congenital or acquired opacity in the natural lens capsule or substance of the eye. In this context, this paper presents TriOft, an embedded teleophthalmology system, which uses the smartphone, for cataract screening.