Classification Framework for Healthy Hair and Alopecia Areata: A Machine Learning Approach

August 2021 in “ Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine ”

Choudhary Sobhan Shakeel, Saad Jawaid Khan, Beenish Moalla Chaudhry, Syeda Fatima Aijaz, Umer Hassan

Alopecia Areata trichology hair loss machine learning classification framework

Studysummary This article proposes a machine learning framework for classifying healthy hair and alopecia areata using image processing and classification techniques, but does not report new clinical findings.

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