Global Science and Technology Journal Vol. 3. No. 1. March 2015 Issue. Pp. 77 – 93 A Skin Disease Detection System for Financially Unstable People in Developing Countries Rahat Yasir, Md. Shariful Islam Nibir, and Nova Ahmed Skin diseases are among the most pestiferous and aesthetically displeasing of all maladies. As skin diseases normally take a bit time to be cured and need continuous medicine it is sometimes hard to carry on the treatment specially for the poor people in developing countries like Bangladesh. In this article we propose a method that uses .different types of computer vision based techniques to detect different types of skin diseases based on different types information's collected from patients. As per the proposed method there will be two version of this system one will be a desktop application for algorithm develop and checking, and the other version will be a mobile phone application that will be the handy version of the proposed system. The system will be detecting 9 different skin diseases commonly occurred among the poor people in Bangladesh. Specifically, the covered diseases in this paper are Eczema, Acne, Leprosy, Psoriasis, Scabies, Foot Ulcer, Vitiligo, Tinea Corporis and Pityriasis Rosea. Keywords: Skin Disease, Off the Record, Medical Image processing, Neural Network, Mobile Computing, Telemedicine. 1. Introduction Skin diseases normally occur in human body for several issues. Like scabies occurs in human due to a little bug, acne due to dust and oil glands in the human skin, vitiligo occurs due to fungal attack, foot ulcer for wearing shoes for long time, eczema due to a certain bacteria. Usually most of the skin disease take some time reveal in the skin and need long term treatment. These treatments some time get too expensive to bear for a family in Bangladesh whose monthly income is less than $40 or 3000 BDT per month. A statistics shows that more than 52% of the families in the rural areas of Bangladesh don’t have a permanent job they just work as daily workers. In this circumstances spending such money for health problems is impossible for them. Sometimes they go to quack to get some cheap medicine and treatment, which eventually damage their body in the near future. Considering these factors the researchers decided to build a system for the financially unstable people in developing countries. First of all we searched for those skin diseases which are very common in this subcontinent. After doing such studies we found nine diseases that people suffers most and treatment of these diseases might get expensive in some cases. The diseases are Eczema, Acne, Leprosy, Psoriasis, Scabies, Foot Ulcer, Vitiligo, Tinea Corporis and Pityriasis Rosea. At first we went to a well reputed government hospital to collect sample data (image) and user information about these selected diseases. We also conducted a small survey on the patients asking some questions regarding how this type of system will help them, how to they want the system to be developed etc. After getting all these ____________ Rahat Yasir and Md. Shariful Islam Nibir, ECE Department, North South University, Bangladesh, Email: rahat.anindo@live.com, nibirsharif@gmail.com Dr. Nova Ahmed, Assistant Professor, ECE Department, North South University, Bangladesh, Email: nova.ahmed.2011@gmail.com