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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

Large-scale, big-variant, high-quality data are crucial for developing robust and successful deep-learning models for medical applications since they potentially enable better generalization performance and avoid overfitting. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zheyuan Zhang , Lanhong Yao , Bin Wang , Debesh Jha , Gorkem Durak , Elif Keles , Alpay Medetalibeyoglu , Ulas Bagci

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

The Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DPM) has demonstrated remarkable performance across a variety of generative tasks. The inherent randomness in diffusion models helps address issues such as blurring at the edges of medical images and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Yilong Hu , Shijie Chang , Lihe Zhang , Feng Tian , Weibing Sun , Huchuan Lu

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…

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Gaetano Scebba , Jia Zhang , Sabrina Catanzaro , Carina Mihai , Oliver Distler , Martin Berli , Walter Karlen

Diabetes-related foot ulcers and complications are a significant concern for individuals with diabetes, leading to severe health implications such as lower-limb amputation and reduced quality of life. This chapter discusses applying…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Sayed Ahmed , Muhammad Ashad Kabir , Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury , Susan Nancarrow

Every 20 seconds, a limb is amputated somewhere in the world due to diabetes. This is a global health problem that requires a global solution. The MICCAI challenge discussed in this paper, which concerns the automated detection of diabetic…

Weakly supervised medical image segmentation (MIS) using generative models is crucial for clinical diagnosis. However, the accuracy of the segmentation results is often limited by insufficient supervision and the complex nature of medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Zhihao Shuai , Yinan Chen , Shunqiang Mao , Yihan Zho , Xiaohong Zhang

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

Producing quality segmentation masks for images is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Recent research has explored large-scale supervised training to enable zero-shot segmentation on virtually any image style and unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Junjiao Tian , Lavisha Aggarwal , Andrea Colaco , Zsolt Kira , Mar Gonzalez-Franco

Previous foundation models for fundus images were pre-trained with limited disease categories and knowledge base. Here we introduce a knowledge-rich vision-language model (RetiZero) that leverages knowledge from more than 400 fundus…

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

Diabetic retinopathy is a serious ocular complication that poses a significant threat to patients' vision and overall health. Early detection and accurate grading are essential to prevent vision loss. Current automatic grading methods rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Farida Mohsen , Samir Belhaouari , Zubair Shah

Clustering tabular data remains a significant open challenge in data analysis and machine learning. Unlike for image data, similarity between tabular records often varies across datasets, making the definition of clusters highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Patryk Marszałek , Tomasz Kuśmierczyk , Witold Wydmański , Jacek Tabor , Marek Śmieja

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

With the development of diffusion-based customization methods like DreamBooth, individuals now have access to train the models that can generate their personalized images. Despite the convenience, malicious users have misused these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Yisu Liu , Jinyang An , Wanqian Zhang , Dayan Wu , Jingzi Gu , Zheng Lin , Weiping Wang

Background. The image-based identification of distinct tissues within dermatological wounds enhances patients' care since it requires no intrusive evaluations. This manuscript presents an approach, we named QTDU, that combines deep learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-24 Gustavo Blanco , Agma J. M. Traina , Caetano Traina , Paulo M. Azevedo-Marques , Ana E. S. Jorge , Daniel de Oliveira , Marcos V. N. Bedo

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

Diffusion/score-based models have recently emerged as powerful generative priors for solving inverse problems, including accelerated MRI reconstruction. While their flexibility allows decoupling the measurement model from the learned prior,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-15 Yaşar Utku Alçalar , Junno Yun , Mehmet Akçakaya