Dermatology - PCA and Clustering
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Aim at understanding the features of different types of dermatology diseases
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Techniques include PCA and K-Means clustering
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Screen plot to check importance of principal components, and how much information will be thrown away if use only first 2 -3 PCs to visualize data

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Underlying features for the PC – are they mostly clinical or histopathological?

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3D scatter plot for K-Means clustering of the first three PCs to entertain human eyes

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Are there better ways to cluster this data? Looks like K-Means is the winner.

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