Expert System For Detection of Cataracts Disease Using The Certainty Factor Method

Abstract

A cataract is an eye disease that causes visual impairment in the eye, the most significant cause of blindness in Indonesia. The rate of blindness in Indonesia caused by cataracts has reached 35% among the elderly 50 years and over. With the development of technology and the shortage of ophthalmologists, an expert system is needed to assist eye health experts by incorporating expert intelligence into the system in the form of fact-based data from the interview results. So that with this expert system, it is hoped that it can help society find cataracts in the eye as a form of early prevention of the chance of suffering from cataracts. The certainty factor method is used in the system to determine the certainty value of the facts that have been entered into the system to obtain a percentage level with a value of 93% so that with the help of this method, system users can find out the type of disease from each symptom