Skin Disease Classification using Neural Network.

Journal: Current medical imaging
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: In this study, a novel and fully automatic skin disease classification approach is proposed using statistical feature extraction and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based classification using first and second order statistical moments, the entropy of different color channels and texture-based features.

Authors

  • Usama Ijaz Bajwa
    Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore, Pakistan.
  • Sardar Alam
    Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad, Pakistan.
  • Nuhman Ul Haq
    Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad, Pakistan.
  • Naeem Iqbal Ratyal
    Department of Electrical Engineering, Mirpur University of Science and Technology (MUST), Mirpur (AJK), Pakistan.
  • Muhammad Waqas Anwar
    Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore, Pakistan.