Analyzing Nutritional Deficiencies through Hair

Nutritional deficiencies are highly prevalent in many developing countries. They exist when human body doesn’t absorb the adequate amount of a nutrient. These deficiencies can lead to a variety of health problems, such as problems of skin, digestion problems, defective bone growth, and even dementia. These deficiencies rarely occur in isolation; if someone is lacking of one deficiency then likely to have some other as well. Iron deficiency has strong relationship with hair loss, similarly many other deficiencies are also associated with hair texture, hair quality and hair loss. In this paper hair features has been used to diagnose several deficiencies in human body. The diagnosis is established by using Case based reasoning CBR. This automated nutritional deficient system reuse the existing cases and adapt if some new case arrives by using similarity measures.