A Hybrid Approach for Detection and Classification of Sheep-Goat Pox Disease Using Deep Neural Networks

Artificial intelligence and its sub-branches, machine learning and deep learning, have proven themselves in many different areas such as medical imaging systems, face recognition, autonomous driving. Especially deep learning models have become very popular today. Because deep learning models are very complex in nature, they are one of the best examples of black-box models. This situation leaves the end user in doubt in terms of interpretability and explainability. Therefore, the need to make such systems understandable methods with explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) has been widely developed in recent years. In this context, a hybrid method has been developed as a result of the study, and classification study has been carried out on the new and original dataset over different deep learning algorithms. Grad-CAM application was performed on VGG16 architecture with classification accuracy of 99.643% and heat maps of pre-processed images were obtained by CLAHE method.