Abstract—Human habits tend to assume that certain skin diseases are not severe problem. If their children skin had been infected by certain skin diseases, most of the parents or guardian will try to treat this infected skin on their own. However, sometimes this treatment was not suitable with that particular skin problem and can make it become worse. This paper proposes a development of an Online Children Skin Diseases Diagnosis System. This system enables user to recognize skin diseases faced by children through online and provide user advises or treatments in shorter time period. To do so, user will answer questions based on their skin condition or symptoms. It will then helps in detecting the skin diseases and provide treatment suggestion. A rule based and forward chaining inference engine has been used for the development of the system. With this system, it help and allows user recognize children skin diseases via online system and provide useful suggestion to user.
Index Terms—Children skin diseases, rule based, expert system.
The authors are with with University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Batu Pahat, Johor Malaysia (e-mail: munirah@uthm.edu.my, ruhaya@uthm.edu.my, sengfei89@hotmail.com).
Cite: Munirah M. Yusof, Ruhaya A. Aziz, and Chew S. Fei, "The Development of Online Children Skin Diseases Diagnosis System," International Journal of Information and Education Technology vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 231-234, 2013.