Classification of skin diseases with deep learning based approaches

Skin diseases are one of the most common health problems that affect people of all ages around the world and significantly reduce the quality of life of individuals. Diseases of eczema, seborrheic dermatitis and skin cancer need to be diagnosed and correctly classified promptly. This issue, which is of great importance in terms of control and practical and effective treatment, is the study's starting point. The study included 693 individuals with eczema, 750 with skin cancer and 770 with seborrheic dermatitis. In the study, which focused on the classification of 3 different skin diseases, the Relief algorithm was used to increase the classification success and to ensure the selection of more meaningful qualities. With AlexNet with cross-validation, the accuracy rate was 89.39% for 80% training and 20% test rates. When SVM classification with the Relief algorithm was used for the same rates, the accuracy rate was 92.10%. In the analysis performed on the ISIC 2017 dataset, the accuracy rate is 89.16% for 80% training and 20% test rate. When the training and test rate was changed to 70% training and 30% test rate, the accuracy rate was 91.11%. It was observed that SVM classification with Relief's algorithm offers higher accuracy rates than other methods. The proposed model provides an original contribution to the literature, particularly through its integration of feature selection and a simplified architecture. This high success rate reveals that deep learning is an effective method in classifying skin diseases and the transfer learning process and will reduce the mortality rates due to cancer diseases with early and effective treatment while enabling skin diseases to be easily distinguished.