NDLI: Smartphone-Based Wound Assessment System for Patients With Diabetes

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Lei Wang Pedersen, P.C. Strong, D.M. Tulu, B. Agu, E. Ignotz, R.
Copyright Year	1964
Abstract	Diabetic foot ulcers represent a significant health issue. Currently, clinicians and nurses mainly base their wound assessment on visual examination of wound size and healing status, while the patients themselves seldom have an opportunity to play an active role. Hence, a more quantitative and cost-effective examination method that enables the patients and their caregivers to take a more active role in daily wound care potentially can accelerate wound healing, save travel cost and reduce healthcare expenses. Considering the prevalence of smartphones with a high-resolution digital camera, assessing wounds by analyzing images of chronic foot ulcers is an attractive option. In this paper, we propose a novel wound image analysis system implemented solely on the Android smartphone. The wound image is captured by the camera on the smartphone with the assistance of an image capture box. After that, the smartphone performs wound segmentation by applying the accelerated mean-shift algorithm. Specifically, the outline of the foot is determined based on skin color, and the wound boundary is found using a simple connected region detection method. Within the wound boundary, the healing status is next assessed based on red-yellow-black color evaluation model. Moreover, the healing status is quantitatively assessed, based on trend analysis of time records for a given patient. Experimental results on wound images collected in UMASS-Memorial Health Center Wound Clinic (Worcester, MA) following an Institutional Review Board approved protocol show that our system can be efficiently used to analyze the wound healing status with promising accuracy.
Sponsorship	IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Starting Page	477
Ending Page	488
Page Count	12
File Size	985474
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00189294
Volume Number	62
Issue Number	2
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-01-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Wounds Foot Image color analysis Algorithm design and analysis Image segmentation Diabetes Vectors wound analysis Android-based smartphone mean shift patients with diabetes
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Biomedical Engineering

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