This paper deals with computation tool to
analyze the diabetic foot ulcer. Normally foot ulcer means
the underlying skin of the foot will be broken down and you
will see the tissue over that damaged area due to diabetes.
The wound should heal in normal condition due to diabetes
the healing process will take place slowly so to identify
whether the ulcer is healing or not. In this paper an image
processing technique is proposed to identify weather ulcer is
healing or not.
Hariprasad Ramachandran : Currently pursuing Masters in
Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Sensors and
Biomedical Technology, School of Electronics Engineering at VIT
University, Vellore campus. Completed Bachelor’s in Biomedical
Engineering in PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore. Field of
interest in Medical Image Processing, Advance Biomechanics and
Rehabilitation Engineering.
Sharmila Nageswaran : is an Assistant Professor in the Department
of Sensors and Biomedical technology, School of Electronics
Engineering at VIT University, Vellore campus..Completed her
Bachelors in Physiotherapy and Masters in Biomedical Engineering.
Currently pursuing her Doctoral study in the field of Rehabilitation
Engineering. Field of interest span around innovations relating to
Biosignal and Medical Image Processing,
Foot Ulcer, Image Processing Technique
This is the simplest technique in order to determine the
healing process foot ulcer, it comprises of digital camera
and a computer system installed with MATLAB starter
application. With image processing tool, this is the wellknown
mathematical tool, which is widely used,
compared to other technique this tool is very cheap,
highly accurate.
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