Decision Support Techniques for Dermatology Using Case-Based Reasoning

Abstract

Identification of skin disease has become a challenging task with the origination of various skin diseases. This paper presents a case-based reasoning (CBR) decision support system to enhance dermatological diagnosis for rural and remote communities. In this proposed work, an automated way is introduced to deal with the inconsistency problem in CBRs. This new hybrid architecture is to support the diagnosis in multiple skin diseases. The architecture used case-based reasoning terminology facilitates the medical diagnosis. Case based reasoning system retrieves the data which contains symptoms and treatment plan of the disease from the data repository by the way of matching visual contents of the image, such as shape, texture, and color descriptors. The extracted feature vector is fed into a framework to retrieve the data. The results proved using ROC curve that the proposed architecture yields high contribution to the computer-aided diagnosis of skin lesions. In experimental analysis, the system yields a specificity of 95.25% and a sensitivity of 86.77%. Our empirical evaluation has a superior retrieval and diagnosis performance when compared to the performance of other works.