Dermatobot: An Image Processing Enabled Chatbot for Diagnosis and Tele-remedy of Skin Diseases

Diseases of dermatological nature have become quite common given the deteriorating environmental conditions, making visits to a dermatologist more frequent. However, a visit to a dermatologist may not always be very feasible as a result of which skin diseases may go untreated and this might become a significant problem in time. Dermatobot is a portable dermatologist for common skin diseases which aims at reducing skin ailments going untreated by providing a combined computer vision and NLP enabled diagnosis to skin diseases and suggesting out remedies for the diagnosed disease. Universal Sentence Encoders were used for similarity matching and an image classification model trained upon EfficientNetB4. The image classification model obtained a top-5 validation accuracy of 92%.Disclaimer: Dermatobot is not a replacement for dermatologists and only recommends mild remedies that the user can adhere to at his/her own avail.