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Chronic wounds such as diabetic foot ulcers and pressure injuries require accurate tissue-level assessment to guide treatment planning and monitor healing progression. While deep learning methods have advanced automated wound analysis, most…

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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

Continuous monitoring of foot ulcer healing is needed to ensure the efficacy of a given treatment and to avoid any possibility of deterioration. Foot ulcer segmentation is an essential step in wound diagnosis. We developed a model that is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-07 Shahzad Ali , Arif Mahmood , Soon Ki Jung

Both limited annotation and domain shift are prevalent challenges in medical image segmentation. Traditional semi-supervised segmentation and unsupervised domain adaptation methods address one of these issues separately. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Qinghe Ma , Jian Zhang , Lei Qi , Qian Yu , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

Data augmentation has become a de facto component of deep learning-based medical image segmentation methods. Most data augmentation techniques used in medical imaging focus on spatial and intensity transformations to improve the diversity…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Berke Doga Basaran , Weitong Zhang , Mengyun Qiao , Bernhard Kainz , Paul M. Matthews , Wenjia Bai

We present a neural network architecture for medical image segmentation of diabetic foot ulcers and colonoscopy polyps. Diabetic foot ulcers are caused by neuropathic and vascular complications of diabetes mellitus. In order to provide a…

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Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) is drawing increasing interest for its ability to minimize manual annotation requirements while enhancing semantic understanding in downstream tasks. However, its reliance on image-text datasets poses…

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Deep learning models for echocardiography segmentation often struggle to generalise across institutions, scanners, and patient populations, where collecting large, consistently annotated datasets is infeasible. Data augmentation is widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Soroush Elyasi , Sara Adibzadeh , Nasim Dadashi Serej , Julie Wall , Massoud Zolgharni

Diabetic Foot Ulcers (DFU) that affect the lower extremities are a major complication of diabetes. Each year, more than 1 million diabetic patients undergo amputation due to failure to recognize DFU and get the proper treatment from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Manu Goyal , Saeed Hassanpour

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 Ulcer (DFU) is a condition requiring constant monitoring and evaluations for treatment. DFU patient population is on the rise and will soon outpace the available health resources. Autonomous monitoring and evaluation of DFU…

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Medical image segmentation is a key task in the imaging workflow, influencing many image-based decisions. Traditional, fully-supervised segmentation models rely on large amounts of labeled training data, typically obtained through manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Tyler Ward , Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran

This research proposes a mobile and cloud-based framework for the automatic detection of diabetic foot ulcers and conducts an investigation of its performance. The system uses a cross-platform mobile framework which enables the deployment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Bill Cassidy , Neil D. Reeves , Joseph M. Pappachan , Naseer Ahmad , Samantha Haycocks , David Gillespie , 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

DFU is a severe complication of diabetes that can lead to amputation of the lower limb if not treated properly. Inspired by the 2021 Diabetic Foot Ulcer Grand Challenge, researchers designed automated multi-class classification of DFU,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Md Mahamudul Hasan , Moi Hoon Yap , Md Kamrul Hasan

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…

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The classification of glomerular lesions is a routine and essential task in renal pathology. Recently, machine learning approaches, especially deep learning algorithms, have been used to perform computer-aided lesion characterization of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-20 Yuzhe Lu , Haichun Yang , Zheyu Zhu , Ruining Deng , Agnes B. Fogo , Yuankai Huo

Both limited annotation and domain shift are prevalent challenges in medical image segmentation. Traditional semi-supervised segmentation and unsupervised domain adaptation methods address one of these issues separately. However, the…

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Although numerous improvements have been made in the field of image segmentation using convolutional neural networks, the majority of these improvements rely on training with larger datasets, model architecture modifications, novel loss…

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