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Acute and chronic wounds are a challenge to healthcare systems around the world and affect many people's lives annually. Wound classification is a key step in wound diagnosis that would help clinicians to identify an optimal treatment…

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Accurate wound classification and boundary segmentation are essential for guiding clinical decisions in both chronic and acute wound management. However, most existing AI models are limited, focusing on a narrow set of wound types or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Mehedi Hasan Tusar , Fateme Fayyazbakhsh , Igor Melnychuk , Ming C. Leu

Chronic wounds significantly impact quality of life. If not properly managed, they can severely deteriorate. Image-based wound analysis could aid in objectively assessing the wound status by quantifying important features that are related…

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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

Globally, in 2016, one out of eleven adults suffered from Diabetes Mellitus. Diabetic Foot Ulcers (DFU) are a major complication of this disease, which if not managed properly can lead to amputation. Current clinical approaches to DFU…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Manu Goyal , Neil D. Reeves , Adrian K. Davison , Satyan Rajbhandari , Jennifer Spragg , Moi Hoon Yap

The growing rate of chronic wound occurrence, especially in patients with diabetes, has become a concerning trend in recent years. Chronic wounds are difficult and costly to treat, and have become a serious burden on health care systems…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Bill Cassidy , Christian McBride , Connah Kendrick , Neil D. Reeves , Joseph M. Pappachan , Shaghayegh Raad , Moi Hoon Yap

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

The global burden of acute and chronic wounds presents a compelling case for enhancing wound classification methods, a vital step in diagnosing and determining optimal treatments. Recognizing this need, we introduce an innovative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Yash Patel , Tirth Shah , Mrinal Kanti Dhar , Taiyu Zhang , Jeffrey Niezgoda , Sandeep Gopalakrishnan , Zeyun Yu

Diabetic foot ulcer is a severe condition that requires close monitoring and management. For training machine learning methods to auto-delineate the ulcer, clinical staff must provide ground truth annotations. In this paper, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Connah Kendrick , Bill Cassidy , Joseph M. Pappachan , Claire O'Shea , Cornelious J. Fernandez , Elias Chacko , Koshy Jacob , Neil D. Reeves , Moi Hoon Yap

Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) detection is a clinically significant yet challenging task due to the scarcity and variability of publicly available datasets. To solve these problems, we propose ConMatFormer, a new hybrid deep learning…

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Diabetes foot ulceration (DFU) and amputation are a cause of significant morbidity. The prevention of DFU may be achieved by the identification of patients at risk of DFU and the institution of preventative measures through education and…

Effective recognition of acute and difficult-to-heal wounds is a necessary step in wound diagnosis. An efficient classification model can help wound specialists classify wound types with less financial and time costs and also help in…

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We introduce AiD Regen, a novel system that generates 3D wound models combining 2D semantic segmentation with 3D reconstruction so that they can be printed via 3D bio-printers during the surgery to treat diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs). AiD…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-06 Han Joo Chae , Seunghwan Lee , Hyewon Son , Seungyeob Han , Taebin Lim

Chronic wounds affect 8.5 million Americans, particularly the elderly and patients with diabetes. These wounds can take up to nine months to heal, making regular care essential to ensure healing and prevent severe outcomes like limb…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Reza Saadati Fard , Emmanuel Agu , Palawat Busaranuvong , Deepak Kumar , Shefalika Gautam , Bengisu Tulu , Diane Strong

Wound image segmentation is a critical component for the clinical diagnosis and in-time treatment of wounds. Recently, deep learning has become the mainstream methodology for wound image segmentation. However, the pre-processing of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Honghui Liu , Changjian Wang , Kele Xu , Fangzhao Li , Ming Feng , Yuxing Peng , Hongjun He

Skin diseases are among the most prevalent health concerns worldwide, yet conventional diagnostic methods are often costly, complex, and unavailable in low-resource settings. Automated classification using deep learning has emerged as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Asif Newaz , Masum Mushfiq Ishti , A Z M Ashraful Azam , Asif Ur Rahman Adib

In Recent Years, Digital Technologies Have Made Significant Strides In Augmenting-Human-Health, Cognition, And Perception, Particularly Within The Field Of Computational-Pathology. This Paper Presents A Novel Approach To Enhancing The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Xiaoqian Hu

Wounds, such as foot ulcers, pressure ulcers, leg ulcers, and infected wounds, come up with substantial problems for healthcare professionals. Prompt and accurate segmentation is crucial for effective treatment. However, contemporary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-22 Md. Zihad Bin Jahangir , Sumaiya Akter , MD Abdullah Al Nasim , Kishor Datta Gupta , Roy George

Image synthesis approaches, e.g., generative adversarial networks, have been popular as a form of data augmentation in medical image analysis tasks. It is primarily beneficial to overcome the shortage of publicly accessible data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Shiyi Du , Xiaosong Wang , Yongyi Lu , Yuyin Zhou , Shaoting Zhang , Alan Yuille , Kang Li , Zongwei Zhou

Skin diseases affect millions of people worldwide, across all ethnicities. Increasing diagnosis accessibility requires fair and accurate segmentation and classification of dermatology images. However, the scarcity of annotated medical…

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