Asiri Wijesinghe won a Merit Award at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards 2015

Asiri Wijesinghe won a Merit Award at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards 2015

Asiri Wijesinghe from the UCSC won a Merit Award for this final year’s individual project at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards 2015.  His project is Autogenous Diabetic Retinopathy Censor for Ophthalmologists – “AKSHI” a full-fledged system for classifying the severity level of Diabetic Retinopathy (based on retinal lesions) and detect retinal vascular networks to the assessment of vessel tortuousness to identify abnormal vessels in the human retina. His project was supervised by Prof. N. D. Kodikara, Dr K D Sandaruwan & Dr Kapila Banduthilake (National Eye Hospital).