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Chronic wounds, including diabetic foot ulcers which affect up to one-third of people with diabetes, impose a substantial clinical and economic burden, with U.S. healthcare costs exceeding 25 billion dollars annually. Current wound…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Moses Kiprono

Diabetic foot neuropathy (DFN) is a critical factor leading to diabetic foot ulcers, which is one of the most common and severe complications of diabetes mellitus (DM) and is associated with high risks of amputation and mortality. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Yan Zhong , Zhixin Yan , Yi Xie , Shibin Wu , Huaidong Zhang , Lin Shu , Peiru Zhou

This paper introduces the Diabetic Foot Ulcers dataset (DFUC2021) for analysis of pathology, focusing on infection and ischaemia. We describe the data preparation of DFUC2021 for ground truth annotation, data curation and data analysis. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Moi Hoon Yap , Bill Cassidy , Joseph M. Pappachan , Claire O'Shea , David Gillespie , Neil Reeves

Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs), a class of chronic wounds, affect ~750,000 individuals every year in the US alone and identifying non-healing DFUs that develop to chronic wounds early can drastically reduce treatment costs and minimize risks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-05 Madhu Babu Sikha , Lalith Appari , Gurudatt Nanjanagudu Ganesh , Amay Bandodkar , Imon Banerjee

Diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) are one of the serious complications of diabetes that can lead to amputations and high healthcare costs. Regular monitoring and early diagnosis are critical for reducing the clinical burden and the risk of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Gulengul Mermer , Mustafa Furkan Aksu , Gozde Ozsezer , Sevki Cetinkalp , Orhan Er , Mehmet Kemal Gullu

This paper provides conceptual foundation and procedures used in the development of diabetic foot ulcer datasets over the past decade, with a timeline to demonstrate progress. We conduct a survey on data capturing methods for foot…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-04 Moi Hoon Yap , Connah Kendrick , Neil D. Reeves , Manu Goyal , Joseph M. Pappachan , Bill Cassidy

This paper presents FUSegNet, a new model for foot ulcer segmentation in diabetes patients, which uses the pre-trained EfficientNet-b7 as a backbone to address the issue of limited training samples. A modified spatial and channel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Mrinal Kanti Dhar , Taiyu Zhang , Yash Patel , Sandeep Gopalakrishnan , Zeyun Yu

The Diabetic Foot Ulcer Challenge 2022 focused on the task of diabetic foot ulcer segmentation, based on the work completed in previous DFU challenges. The challenge provided 4000 images of full-view foot ulcer images together with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Connah Kendrick , Bill Cassidy , Neil D. Reeves , Joseph M. Pappachan , Claire O'Shea , Vishnu Chandrabalan , Moi Hoon Yap

Diabetic foot ulcer classification systems use the presence of wound infection (bacteria present within the wound) and ischaemia (restricted blood supply) as vital clinical indicators for treatment and prediction of wound healing. Studies…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-27 Bill Cassidy , Connah Kendrick , Neil D. Reeves , Joseph M. Pappachan , Claire O'Shea , David G. Armstrong , Moi Hoon Yap

Diabetes is a raising problem that affects many people globally. Diabetic patients are at risk of developing foot ulcer that usually leads to limb amputation, causing significant morbidity, and psychological distress. In order to develop a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-07 Azadeh Alavi , Hossein Akhoundi

We propose an automatic diabetic retinopathy (DR) analysis algorithm based on two-stages deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN). Compared to existing DCNN-based DR detection methods, the proposed algorithm have the following advantages:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Yehui Yang , Tao Li , Wensi Li , Haishan Wu , Wei Fan , Wensheng Zhang

Background: In the absence of prospective data on diabetic foot ulcers (DFU), cross-sectional associations with causal risk factors (peripheral neuropathy, and peripheral arterial disease (PAD)) could be used to establish the validity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Akshay Jagadeesh , Chanchanok Aramrat , Aqsha Nur , Poppy Mallinson , Sanjay Kinra

At present, the ubiquity method to diagnose the severity of diabetic feet (DF) depends on professional podiatrists. However, in most cases, professional podiatrists have a heavy workload, especially in underdeveloped and developing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Aifu Han , Yongze Zhang , Ajuan Li , Changjin Li , Fengying Zhao , Qiujie Dong , Qin Liu , Yanting Liu , Ximei Shen , Sunjie Yan , Shengzong Zhou

Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) pose a significant challenge in healthcare, requiring precise and efficient wound assessment to enhance patient outcomes. This study introduces the Attention Diffusion Zero-shot Unsupervised System (ADZUS), a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Abderrachid Hamrani , Daniela Leizaola , Renato Sousa , Jose P. Ponce , Stanley Mathis , David G. Armstrong , Anuradha Godavarty

Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) are a severe complication of diabetes associated with significant morbidity, amputation risk, and healthcare burden. Developing effective continuous monitoring frameworks requires first establishing reliable…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-08 Md Tanvir Hasan Turja

Diabetes is a global raising pandemic. Diabetes patients are at risk of developing foot ulcer that usually leads to limb amputation. In order to develop a self monitoring mobile application, in this work, we propose a novel deep subspace…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-06 Azadeh Alavi

To detect infected wounds in Diabetic Foot Ulcers (DFUs) from photographs, preventing severe complications and amputations. Methods: This paper proposes the Guided Conditional Diffusion Classifier (ConDiff), a novel deep-learning infection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Palawat Busaranuvong , Emmanuel Agu , Deepak Kumar , Shefalika Gautam , Reza Saadati Fard , Bengisu Tulu , Diane Strong

Diabetes remains a significant health challenge globally, contributing to severe complications like kidney disease, vision loss, and heart issues. The application of machine learning (ML) in healthcare enables efficient and accurate disease…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Mahade Hasan , Farhana Yasmin

Diabetic Retinopathy DR is a severe complication of diabetes. Damaged or abnormal blood vessels can cause loss of vision. The need for massive screening of a large population of diabetic patients has generated an interest in a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Ameya Uppina , S Navaneetha Krishnan , Talluri Krishna Sai Teja , Nikhil N Iyer , Joe Dhanith P R

Diabetic retinopathy is one of the most threatening complications of diabetes that leads to permanent blindness if left untreated. One of the essential challenges is early detection, which is very important for treatment success.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Borys Tymchenko , Philip Marchenko , Dmitry Spodarets