Implementation of Deep Learning Model for Identification of Skin Diseases by Utilizing Convolutional Neural Network

Abstract

Skin diseases are health problems that affect many individuals worldwide. Rapid and accurate diagnosis of skin diseases is essential for effective treatment. In an effort to improve diagnosis, information technology and artificial intelligence have taken on increasingly significant roles. This study focuses on the implementation of deep learning models for skin disease identification using CNN architectures EfficientNetB0, Xception and VGG16. The models were trained and tested on a dataset of 1800 images with 5 dermatitis classes and 1 normal class. Confusion matrices were used to assess the performance of the three deep learning models on the components of accuracy, recall, precision, and F1-score. The results of the deep learning model that can classify dermatitis skin diseases with a performance of more than 90% for each evaluation matrix are deep learning models utilizing EfficientNetB0 transfer learning with an accuracy of 93%. In contrast, the Xception model indicates overfitting with a training accuracy of 99.96% and a validation accuracy of 86.38%. The VGG16 model indicates underfitting with a training accuracy of 69.71% and a validation accuracy of 46.79%.