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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">IJLTEMAS</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>International Journal of Latest Technology in Engineering, Management &amp; Applied Science (IJLTEMAS)</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2278-2540</issn>
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        <publisher-name>IJLTEMAS</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">40</article-id>
            <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.51583/IJLTEMAS.2026.150700035</article-id>
      
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          <subject>Skin Disease</subject>
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        <article-title>Skin Disease Prediction and Medicine Recommendation Using Hybrid CNN-RBM with Doctor Verification</article-title>
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            <surname>Bhargavi</surname>
            <given-names>Pokala</given-names>
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            Dept. of CSE (AI &amp; ML), Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology &amp; Sciences (ANITS), Visakhapatnam, India                        <country>India</country>
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            <surname>Srikar</surname>
            <given-names>Pilla</given-names>
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                              <aff>
            Dept. of CSE (AI &amp; ML), Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology &amp; Sciences (ANITS), Visakhapatnam, India                        <country>India</country>
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            <surname>M N S C Ganesh</surname>
            <given-names>Narem</given-names>
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            Dept. of CSE (AI &amp; ML), Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology &amp; Sciences (ANITS), Visakhapatnam, India                        <country>India</country>
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            <surname>Vinodh Kumar</surname>
            <given-names>Althi</given-names>
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            Dept. of CSE (AI &amp; ML), Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology &amp; Sciences (ANITS), Visakhapatnam, India                        <country>India</country>
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            <surname>Mokshagna</surname>
            <given-names>Chilla</given-names>
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            Dept. of CSE (AI &amp; ML), Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology &amp; Sciences (ANITS), Visakhapatnam, India                        <country>India</country>
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            <volume>15</volume>
                  <issue>7</issue>
                        <fpage>419</fpage>
            <lpage>430</lpage>
            
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                <date date-type="received">
          <day>23</day>
          <month>07</month>
          <year>2026</year>
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                        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>28</day>
          <month>07</month>
          <year>2026</year>
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        <day>07</day>
        <month>08</month>
        <year>2026</year>
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                <kwd>skin disease classification</kwd>
                <kwd>multimodal deep learning</kwd>
                <kwd>convolutional neural networks</kwd>
                <kwd>Restricted Boltzmann Machine</kwd>
                <kwd>tele-dermatology</kwd>
                <kwd>doctor verification</kwd>
                <kwd>DermNet</kwd>
                <kwd>medicine recommendation</kwd>
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      <p>Most automated tools for skin diagnosis look at a photograph and stop there. Symptom data — how long the rash has been present, whether it itches, where on the body it appears — is routinely discarded, even though no practising dermatologist would ignore it. On top of that, AI-generated outputs typically reach patients without any medical review at all. This paper describes a system built to correct both problems. Patients upload a lesion photograph and fill out a twenty-item symptom questionnaire. The image is processed by an EfficientNet-B3 convolutional network [16], which produces a 512-dimensional feature vector. A Restricted Boltzmann Machine condenses the symptom responses into a 100-dimensional latent vector. The two feature vectors are fused into a 612-dimensional representation and passed to a softmax classifier. A dermatologist, after consulting the Doctor Portal, is the only one able to share the output with the patient — this step cannot be skipped.
The platform was built using React for the front-end, Flask for the server, and MongoDB for data storage. The system authenticates and encrypts data using JWT tokens, bcrypt, and AES-256.
Our CNN+RBM model outperforms four baseline models — CNN-only, Matrix Factorisation (MF), SVD, and Weighted SVD (WSVD) — across every metric measured. By epoch 14, the model achieves 72.58% accuracy, 74.1% precision, 71.8% recall, and a 72.9% F1 score, with a false positive rate of only 4.2%.</p>
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