An Intelligent System for Monitoring Skin Diseases

Sensors (Basel). 2018 Aug 4;18(8):2552. doi: 10.3390/s18082552.

Abstract

The practical increase of interest in intelligent technologies has caused a rapid development of all activities in terms of sensors and automatic mechanisms for smart operations. The implementations concentrate on technologies which avoid unnecessary actions on user side while examining health conditions. One of important aspects is the constant inspection of the skin health due to possible diseases such as melanomas that can develop under excessive influence of the sunlight. Smart homes can be equipped with a variety of motion sensors and cameras which can be used to detect and identify possible disease development. In this work, we present a smart home system which is using in-built sensors and proposed artificial intelligence methods to diagnose the skin health condition of the residents of the house. The proposed solution has been tested and discussed due to potential use in practice.

Keywords: ambient intelligence; artificial neural network; hybrid solutions; pattern recognition; sensors networks; skin diseases detection.

Publication types

  • Clinical Trial

MeSH terms

  • Artificial Intelligence*
  • Humans
  • Melanoma / diagnosis*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Skin Diseases / diagnosis*