Toward Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Big Data: Hardware and software design and implementation

This paper presents a novel Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Big Data platform for future pharmaceutical applications. This platform is a network collecting AMD data from a large number of AMD patients in a central unit for data analytical purposes. Each network node is connected to a headset with graphical interface system for measuring the progression of AMD. Herein we discuss the proposed hardware and software and demonstrate the results for Big Data applications. Based on these results, the proposed platform offers unique and promising advantages for early detection of AMD and for future optimization of in-development AMD related drugs using the obtained Big Data.