Disclosed is a computer-implemented method, comprising receiving an element of input image data representative of an image. The method further comprises an estimating step comprising estimating for the element of input image data by means of a
machine learning model a set of facial feature(s) and at least one of (i) a set of
disease classification confidences and (ii) a set of
disease similarity
estimation values, each of the
disease classification confidences and / or each of the disease similarity
estimation values corresponding to a respective disease from a
list of diseases. Further, the method comprises outputting a result of the estimating step and a pre-training step. The pre-training step comprises pre-training the
machine learning model with a face recognition
data set comprising a plurality of training image data elements representative of a face photo. The method further comprises a fine-tuning step. The model further comprises a
feature vector part computing a
feature vector based on the input image data, at least one fully connected facial-
feature estimation layer, and a disease
estimation component. The method comprises the at least one fully connected facial-
feature estimation layer estimating a set of classification confidences for a
list of facial features based on the
feature vector. Estimating the set of facial feature(s) comprises selecting the facial features from the
list of facial features based on the estimated classification confidence. The method also comprises the disease estimation component estimating at least one of the set of
disease classification confidences and the set of disease similarity estimation values. The fine-tuning step further comprises obtaining the at least one fully connected facial-
feature estimation layer and the at least one fully connected disease estimation layer based on training data for fine-tuning. Also disclosed is a
system comprising a data-
processing system. The
system is configured for carrying out the method. Further, a
computer program product comprising instructions which, when the program is executed by a data-
processing system, cause the data-
processing system to carry out the method is disclosed. Also, a use of the method or the system to diagnose a genetic disease is disclosed.