Products and Services

Product ecosystem

Connected tools for diagnosis, training, and system-level insight

Ocular combines AI-enabled diagnostic decision support, microscopy training tools, and disease intelligence capabilities into a connected infrastructure designed to strengthen diagnostic quality and health system learning in low-resource settings.

Ocular DX

Supports diagnosis

AI-enabled microscopy diagnostic decision support that assists laboratory professionals in interpreting smartphone-captured microscopy images within existing workflows.

  • AI-assisted diagnosis
  • Works with microscopes
  • Smartphone-enabled

  • Combines AI-powered image analysis with smartphone-enabled microscopy
  • Supports microscopy interpretation at the point of care
  • Functions as a diagnostic quality layer within the Ocular ecosystem
  • AI-Powered Microscopy System
  • 3D-Printed Smartphone Adapter
  • Ocular AI Diagnosis Mobile App
  • Malaria, tuberculosis, and cervical cancer microscopy workflows
  • AI-powered image analysis
  • Compatible with standard microscopes
  • Smartphone-based image capture
  • Portable and cost-effective
  • Optional offline functionality
  • Structured diagnostic outputs

Ocular Teaching Aid

Builds workforce capacity

An AI-enabled microscopy training and simulation platform that supports instructors and institutions in teaching microscopy with greater consistency and scale.

  • Training and simulation
  • Classroom ready
  • Collaborative learning

  • Digital microscopy teaching and classroom facilitation system
  • Enables image capture, live display, annotation, and collaborative discussion
  • Supports in-person, hybrid, and remote learning environments
  • Mobile application for microscopy image capture
  • Desktop application for image management and annotation
  • Web-based platform for collaboration and sharing
  • Pre-service education, in-service training, CPD, and standardised microscopy interpretation
  • Interactive image annotation and feedback
  • Real microscopy images with AI-assisted annotations
  • Collaborative and peer-based learning
  • Desktop and mobile compatibility

Ocular Surveillance Tool

Generates system-level insights

The analytics and surveillance layer that aggregates anonymized diagnostic outputs to generate timely, actionable public health insights.

  • Disease intelligence
  • Trend monitoring
  • Supports planning

  • Transforms frontline diagnostic activity into population-level disease intelligence
  • Enables facility, district, and regional-level monitoring
  • Positions Ocular as a system-level asset rather than a facility-level tool
  • Malaria
  • Tuberculosis
  • Designed for extension to additional disease areas
  • Improved timeliness and granularity of surveillance
  • Earlier detection of outbreaks
  • Supports evidence-based planning and response
  • Strengthens links between diagnostics and surveillance

Makerere AI Health Lab

Enables research and collaboration

The broader research and innovation environment supporting the development, testing, and advancement of Ocular and related applied AI solutions for healthcare.

  • Applied AI research
  • Health systems collaboration
  • Context-relevant innovation
  • Supports applied AI research and innovation in healthcare
  • Provides an institutional base for collaboration and evaluation
  • Advances context-relevant digital health solutions

Ocular as an Enabler

Together, these capabilities create a continuous pathway from diagnosis to training to system-level insight, helping close gaps that have traditionally limited diagnostic quality and health system learning.

Diagnosis

  • Faster microscopy interpretation
  • Improved diagnostic consistency

Training

  • Accelerated skills development
  • Increased professional confidence

System Insight

  • Aggregated diagnostic data
  • Early disease trend visibility