Smartphone based clinical decision support system for early detection of neonatal jaundice using artificial...

Physiological jaundice is present in the initial week of life in neonates owing to the rise in level of bilirubin thereby resulting in yellowish coloring of sclera and skin. Severe jaundice and lethal bilirubin levels may result from brain damage as bilirubin is located in the central nervous system. Present diagnostic techniques consist of time-consuming and a painful invasive blood test and non-invasive tests using expensive transcutaneous bilirubin meters. Then regular monitoring is important, numerous efforts are conducted to progress non-invasive devices for testing utilizing a smartphone camera. Various efforts have been deployed to automate the neonatal jaundice diagnosis applying dissimilar machine learning, image processing, and CV methods. With the rise of smartphone-based and computer vision applications in clinical environments, especially for early detection of diseases like neonatal jaundice, reliability becomes more critical. This paper develops an Advancing Early Jaundice Detection of Neonatal with a Smartphone-based Computer Vision System and Golden Jackal Optimizer algorithm (AEJDN-SCVGJO) for Clinical Decision-Making. The image pre-processing applies an adaptive median filter (AMF) to enhance image quality by removing the noise. For the feature extractor, the SE-DenseNet has been deployed. Moreover, the proposed AEJDN-SCVGJO model executes the temporal convolutional network (TCN) model for the classification process. Finally, the Golden Jackal Optimizer (GJO) adjusts the parameter value of the TCN model optimally and outcomes in higher solution of classification. To exhibit the enhanced execution of the presented AEJDN-SCVGJO methodology, a wide-ranging experimental investigation is made. The comparative outcomes reported the improvised characteristics of the AEJDN-SCVGJO model.