"Visual Ophthalmologist" (VO) is designed for a 32-bit operating system, such as Windows NT, or Windows 95, running on a PC-compatible computer. The system can function independently just as an image data management system (IDMS), or it can also be used for image classification. The system can function independently just as an IDMS, or it can also be used for image classification. The module is implemented in a separate program, which can be run concurrently with the Visual Ophthalmologist. The reason for not incorporating neural network classification module directly into the Visual Ophthalmologist is that since it is a versatile program by itself, it can serve for finding solutions of many independent problems of recognition/classification, similar to the ones found by the Visual Ophthalmologist project. The neural network training in this module is based on the Algorithm of Pattern Extraction (ALOPEX).