1. An automated method for diagnosing and evaluating severity of retinopathy of prematurity in a retina of a patient, said method comprising: providing a graphical user interface (GUI); receiving biographical information for the patient creating a patient record in a database via said GUI; receiving at least one photograph of the retina of the patient for placement in said patient record via said GUI; analyzing said at least one photograph to determine vascular distributions within the retina; and assigning a zone 1 boundary to the retina based on a set of threshold levels with respect to the determined vascular distributions.