Skin Disease Prediction and Provision of Medical Advice Using Deep Learning

Abstract

Skin diseases are hazardous and often contagious, especially melanoma, eczema, and impetigo. These skin diseases can be cured if detected early. The fundamental problem with it is, only an expert dermatologist is able to detect and classify such disease. Sometimes, the doctors also fail to correctly classify the disease and hence provide inappropriate medications to the patient. Our project proposes a skin disease detection method based on Image Processing and Deep Learning Techniques. Our system is Personal Computer based so can be used even in remote areas. The patient needs to provide the image of the infected area and it is given as an input to the application. Image Processing and Deep Learning techniques process it and deliver the accurate output. The output is used to get the best medical cure for the disease with nearest hospital details. In this project, we present a comparison of two different approaches for real-time skin disease detection algorithm based on accuracy.