An efficient approach to an automatic detection of erythemato-squamous diseases

Abstract

This paper presents a novel approach to automatic detection of the erythemato-squamous diseases based on fuzzy extreme learning machine (FELM). Enormous computational efforts are required to classify these erythemato-squamous diseases. Some of the approaches performed previously are through fuzzy logic, artificial neural networks and neuro-fuzzy models. FELM-based differential diagnosis of these diseases involves decisions made by fuzzy logic and extreme learning machine (ELM) with greater efficiency in both time and accuracy. In this paper, we develop a user-friendly interface and this tool will be useful for a dermatologist to estimate the six types of erythemato-squamous diseases with the help of patient’s histopathological and clinical data. Then, the developed interface is derived inbuilt using neural networks, adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system and FELM. A dataset containing records of 366 patients with 34 features that define six disease characteristics was taken, of which 310 records were used as training data and 56 other records used as testing data. The dataset was preprocessed to obtain fuzzy values as input to get more accurate results in FELM. Given a training set of such records, ELM approach is applied. By combining fuzzy logic and ELM, more accurate results with increased performance are obtained with less computational efforts. Finally, the proposed FELM model proves to be a potential solution for the diagnosis of erythemato-squamous diseases with significant improvement in computational time and accuracy compared with other models discussed in the recent literature.