Skin Disease Diagnosis from Photographs Using Deep Learning

Abstract

This work aims to study performance of different deep learning based approaches to classify skin diseases automatically from colored digital photographs. We applied recent network models, which are U-Net, Inception Version-3 (InceptionV3), Inception and Residual Network (InceptionResNetV2), VGGNet, and Residual Network (ResNet). Comparative evaluations of the results obtained by these network models indicated that automated diagnosis from digital photographs is possible with accuracy between 74% (by U-net) and 80% (by ResNet). Therefore, further studies are still required in this area to design and develop a new model by combining advantages of different network models and also to obtain higher accuracy. In addition, testing of the model should be performed with more data including more diversity to see reliability of the model.