A system for nail color analysis in healthcare

Abstract

This paper is focused on the system of image recognition on the basis of color analysis. In healthcare domain, study of human nail color is very important. Many diseases could be identified by analyzing nails of hands. Human eye is having limitation in resolution as well as subjectivity in color analysis. The proposed system is based on the algorithm which automatically extracts only nails' area from scanned back side of palm. These selected pixels are processed for further analysis. The system is computer based, so small discontinuities in color values are also observed, and we can detect color changes in the initial stage of disease. In this way, system is quite useful in prediction of diseases in their initial stages.