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Automated wound identification system based on image segmentation and Artificial Neural Networks
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Automated wound identification system based on image segmentation and Artificial Neural Networks

Bo Song and A Sacan
2012 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, pp 1-4
Oct 2012

Abstract

Artificial Neural Networks Databases Feature extraction Image segmentation Optimization Training Vectors Wound Identification Wounds
A system that can automatically and accurately identify the region of a chronic wound could largely improve conventional clinical practice for the wound diagnosis and treatment. We designed a system that uses color wound photographs taken from the patients, and is capable of automatic image segmentation and wound region identification. Several commonly used segmentation methods are utilized with their parameters fine-tuned automatically to obtain a collection of candidate wound regions. Two different types of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), the Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) and the Radial Basis Function (RBF) with parameters determined by a cross-validation approach, are then applied with supervised learning in the prediction procedure for the wound identification, and their results are compared. The satisfactory results obtained by this system make it a promising tool to assist in the field of clinical wound evaluation.

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