Selfie care
Embodiments of the present invention provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for the selfie image sourced diagnosis of prospective eye disease. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for diagnosing prospective eye disease includes acquiring a selfie image with a portable communications device, recognizing a portion of the selfie image as an eye and comparing the portion of the selfie image to a pre-stored image of the eye in order to detect a threshold change from the pre-stored image to the selfie image. Thereafter, in response to detecting the threshold change, an alert is displayed in a display of the portable communications device. In this regard, optionally, the threshold change can be classified, and the classification correlated to a prospective ophthalmological diagnosis through the use of a classification table. Then, the prospective ophthalmological diagnosis can be included in the alert.
1. A data processing system adapted to diagnose prospective eye disease, the system comprising:
a portable communications device comprising cellular communications circuitry, one or more processors, memory, a touch screen display, and a digital camera; and,
a selfie care module comprising computer program instructions enabled while executing in the memory of the portable communications device to perform:
acquiring a selfie image with the portable communications device;
recognizing a portion of the selfie image as an eye;
comparing the portion of the selfie image to a pre-stored image of the eye in order to detect a threshold change from the pre-stored image to the selfie image;
responsive to detecting the threshold change, displaying an alert in the display of the portable communications device;
classifying the threshold change;
looking up a prospective ophthalmological diagnosis corresponding to a classification in a classification table; and,
including the prospective ophthalmological diagnosis in the alert;
wherein the portable communications device is a smart phone with a touch screen display and dual camera lens, a first of the lenses positioned on an opposite side of the smart phone as the touch screen display, and a second of the lenses positioned at a same side of the smart phone as the touch screen display, the acquisition of the selfie image comprising:
detecting an acquisition of the image by one of the lenses of the smart phone;
determining which of lenses had been used to acquire the image; and,
on condition that it is determined that the second of the lenses positioned at the same side of the smart phone as the touch screen display acquired the image, identifying in the acquired image a face, matching the image of the identified face to a pre-stored image of a known face associated with the pre-stored image of the eye, and on condition that the identified face matches the known face, determining that the acquired image is the selfie image.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the threshold change is a threshold change in color of a collection of pixels of the selfie-image associated with a specific structural portion of the eye.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the threshold change is a threshold change in a number of pixels accounting for a specific structural portion of the eye.