Automated Pressure Ulcer Lesion Diagnosis for Telemedicine Systems

In this work we examine the potential of using digital images to classify regions appearing in pressure ulcer images and thus being able to have a diagnosis about the patient's current state. We capitalize on telemedicine infrastructure, which can overcome difficulties posed by remote patient l...

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Published inIEEE engineering in medicine and biology magazine Vol. 26; no. 5; pp. 18 - 22
Main Authors Kosmopoulos, Dimitrios I., Tzevelekou, Fotini L.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States IEEE 01.09.2007
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Automatic Data Processing
Bones
Clinical Protocols
Decision Support Systems, Clinical - instrumentation
Diagnosis, Differential
Friction
Humans
Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted - methods
Image quality
Lesions
Medical treatment
Patient monitoring
Pattern Recognition, Automated - methods
Pressure Ulcer - diagnosis
Reproducibility of Results
Skin
Skin - pathology
Software Design
Telemedicine
Telemedicine - methods
Tissue damage
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Summary:In this work we examine the potential of using digital images to classify regions appearing in pressure ulcer images and thus being able to have a diagnosis about the patient's current state. We capitalize on telemedicine infrastructure, which can overcome difficulties posed by remote patient location, and we aim to provide diagnostic tools that will satisfy the above requirements.
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ISSN:0739-5175
1937-4186
DOI:10.1109/EMB.2007.901786