Evidence map›Paper›PMID 37627896›Full record

ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Automatic Diabetic Foot Ulcer Recognition Using Multi-Level Thermographic Image Data.

Ikramullah Khosa, Awais Raza, Mohd Anjum, Waseem Ahmad, Sana Shahab

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.6field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Review
  3. Review
  4. Review
  5. Review
  6. Article
  7. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Ikramullah KhosaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0002-9149-9358
Awais RazaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.
Mohd AnjumDepartment of Computer Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202002, India.
Waseem AhmadDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Meerut Institute of Engineering and Technology, Meerut 250005, India.
Sana ShahabDepartment of Business Administration, College of Business Administration, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, P.O. Box 84428, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-0254-3351
COMSATS University Islamabad · PKAligarh Muslim University · INPrincess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University · SA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lower extremity diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) are a severe consequence of diabetes mellitus (DM). It has been estimated that people with diabetes have a 15% to 25% lifetime risk of acquiring DFUs which leads to the risk of lower limb amputations up to 85% due to poor diagnosis and treatment. Diabetic foot develops planter ulcers where thermography is used to detect the changes in the planter temperature. In this study, publicly available thermographic image data including both control group and diabetic group patients are used. Thermograms at image level as well as patch level are utilized for DFU detection. For DFU recognition, several machine-learning-based classification approaches are employed with hand-crafted features. Moreover, a couple of convolutional neural network models including ResNet50 and DenseNet121 are evaluated for DFU recognition. Finally, a CNN-based custom-developed model is proposed for the recognition task. The results are produced using image-level data, patch-level data, and image-patch combination data. The proposed CNN-based model outperformed the utilized models as well as the state-of-the-art models in terms of the AUC and accuracy. Moreover, the recognition accuracy for both the machine-learning and deep-learning approaches was higher for the image-level thermogram data in comparison to the patch-level or combination of image-patch thermograms.

Indexed as

deep learningdiabetes mellitusdiabetic foot ulcermachine learningthermograms

Identifiers

PMID37627896
PMCPMC10453276
OpenAlexW4385737605

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.