Image Segmentation based Approach for Skin Disease Detection and Classification using Machine Learning Algorithms

Skin disorders are ubiquitous, stemming from causes including fungus, germs, allergies, and viruses. Although laser and photonics medical technologies have revolutionised rapid and precise diagnosis, their exorbitant prices restrict accessibility. To address this, this paper describes an image processing strategy for dermatological screening and procedure that comprises obtaining digital photographs of damaged skin patches and applying image processing to detect the disease type. Moreover, when conducted manually by medical specialists, identifying skin illnesses is time-intensive and subjective. As a consequence, both patients and physicians want automated skin disease prediction, which makes the treatment plan faster. This cost-effective approach depends on a basic setup: a camera and a computer. Operating on colour photos, a solution combines resizing for feature extraction using a pertained convolutional neural network, followed by classification using a multiclass SVM. The technology efficiently recognises four separate skin illnesses with an astonishing 90.8% accuracy, giving users complete findings spanning disease kind, extent, and severity.