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Khong, Fan Yi and Tee, Connie and Goh, Michael Kah Ong and Wong, Li Pei and Teh, Pin Shen and Choo, Ai Ling (2022) Non-invasive health prediction from visually observable features. F1000Research, 10. p. 918. ISSN 2046-1402

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Abstract

The unprecedented development of Artificial Intelligence has revolutionised the healthcare industry. In the next generation of healthcare systems, self-diagnosis will be pivotal to personalised healthcare services. During the COVID-19 pandemic, new screening and diagnostic approaches like mobile health are well-positioned to reduce disease spread and overcome geographical barriers. This paper presents a non-invasive screening approach to predict the health of a person from visually observable features using machine learning techniques. Images like face and skin surface of the patients are acquired using camera or mobile devices and analysed to derive clinical reasoning and prediction of the person’s health. Methods: In specific, a two-level classification approach is presented. The proposed hierarchical model chooses a class by training a binary classifier at the node of the hierarchy. Prediction is then made using a set of class-specific reduced feature set. Results: Testing accuracies of 86.87% and 76.84% are reported for the first and second-level classification. Empirical results demonstrate that the proposed approach yields favourable prediction results while greatly reduces the computational time. Conclusions: The study suggests that it is possible to predict the health condition of a person based on his/her face appearance using cost-effective machine learning approaches.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Machine learning, Health prediction, Remote screening and diagnosis
Subjects:	Q Science > Q Science (General) > Q300-390 Cybernetics
Divisions:	Faculty of Information Science and Technology (FIST)
Depositing User:	Ms Nurul Iqtiani Ahmad
Date Deposited:	03 Nov 2022 01:39
Last Modified:	03 Nov 2022 01:39
URII:	http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/id/eprint/10225

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