Multi-type skin diseases classification using OP-DNN based feature extraction approach

Abstract

In the current world, the disorders occurring in dermatological images are among the foremost widespread diseases. Despite being common, its identification is tremendously hard because of the complexities like skin tone and color variation due to the presence of hair regions. Therefore the type of skin disease prediction is not accurately achieved in many pieces of research. To deal with mentioned concerns, a novel optimal probability-based deep neural network is proposed to assist medical professionals in appropriately diagnosing the type of skin disease. Initially, the input dataset is fed into the pre-processing stage, which helps to remove unwanted contents in the image. Afterward, features extracted for all the pre-processed images are subjected to the proposed Optimal Probability-Based Deep Neural Network (OP-DNN) for the training process. This classification algorithm classifies incoming clinical images as different skin diseases with the help of probability values. While learning OP-DNN, it is essential to determine the optimal weight values for reducing the training error. For optimizing weight in OP-DNN structure, an optimization approach is implemented in this research. For that, whale optimization is utilized because it works faster than other methods. The proposed multi-type skin disease prediction model is implemented in MatLab software and achieved 95% of accuracy, 0.97 of specificity, and 0.91 of sensitivity. This exposes the superiority of the proposed multi-type skin disease prediction model using an effective OP-DNN based feature extraction approach to attain a high accuracy rate and also it predict several kinds of skin disease than the previous models, which can protect the patients survives as well as can assist the physicians in making a decision certainly.

Keywords: Multi-type skin diseases prediction; Optimal probability-based deep neural network; Whale optimization algorithm (WOA).