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Multi-Class Cataract Detection from Pupil Images from Rural India

Author(s) Anoushka Agrawal, Jaden Shiju, Saiprathist Reganti, Vivaan Rao
Country United States
Abstract Cataracts are one of the leading causes of vision impairment worldwide, and their burden is disproportionately concentrated in low-resource settings such as rural India. Many existing state-of-the-art deep learning models for cataract detection struggle to localize the clinically relevant region, the pupil, and instead learn spurious correlations with irrelevant features such as skin color and eyebrow texture. In this work, it is proposed that cataract grading can be improved by restricting model input to the pupil region and addressing two systematic data quality issues: scale variability and specular reflection artifacts. We developed a two-path preprocessing pipeline that applies partial convolution-based inpainting to remove bright spot artifacts and randomized zoom augmentation via a MONAI pipeline to normalize scale. A ResNet-18 classifier is then trained on pupil-cropped images to perform six-class cataract grading (No Cataract, NS1–NS5). Experiments on 1,639 pupil images demonstrate that the combined training strategy, mixing inpainted and non-inpainted images with data augmentation, achieves the best multi-class AUC of 0.8919. It is observed that the model reliably distinguishes healthy from cataractous eyes, while confusion between adjacent intermediate grades (NS2–NS3) remains a challenge for future work.
Field Computer > Artificial Intelligence / Simulation / Virtual Reality
Published In Volume 8, Issue 4, July-August 2026
Published On 2026-07-26
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i04.83729
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