Gout Images Detection and Recognition by Neural Network

Abstract

Gout skin detection and tracking has been the topics of an extensive research for the several past decades. Many heuristic and pattern recognition based strategies have been proposed for achieving robust and accurate solution.This paper demonstrates how a Gout skin detection recognition system can be designed with artificial neural network. Note that the training process did not consist of a single call to a training function. Instead, the network was trained several times on various input ideal and noisy images, the images which contents Gout skin . The objective of this study was to develop a back propagation artificial neural network (ANN) model that could distinguish gout image by several parameters for testing are Energy , Entropy , Average andVariance. Although only the color indices associated with image pixels were used as inputs, it was assumed that the ANN model could develop the ability to use other information, such as shapes, implicit in these data. The 756x504 pixel images were taken in the field and were then cropped to 100x100-pixel images in testing phase. A total of 80 images of gout image and other images were used for training purposes. For ANNs, the success rate for classifying gout image was as high as 100%.