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ArticleJournal of medical systems2024

Automated Prediction of Photographic Wound Assessment Tool in Chronic Wound Images.

Nico Curti, Yuri Merli, Corrado Zengarini, Michela Starace, Luca Rapparini, Emanuela Marcelli, Gianluca Carlini, Daniele Buschi, Gastone C Castellani, Bianca Maria Piraccini and 2 more

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Article in Journal of medical systems, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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12 authors.

Nico Curti *Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna, 40127, Bologna, Italy.
Yuri Merli *Dermatology Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, 40138, Bologna, Italy.
Corrado ZengariniDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, 40138, Bologna, Italy. corrado.zengarini@studio.unibo.it.
Michela StaraceDermatology Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, 40138, Bologna, Italy.
Luca RappariniDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, 40138, Bologna, Italy.
Emanuela MarcelliDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, 40138, Bologna, Italy.
Gianluca CarliniData Science and Bioinformatics Laboratory, IRCCS Institute of Neurological Sciences of Bologna, 40139, Bologna, Italy.
Daniele BuschiDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, 40138, Bologna, Italy.
Gastone C CastellaniDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, 40138, Bologna, Italy.
Bianca Maria PiracciniDermatology Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, 40138, Bologna, Italy.
Tommaso BianchiNative Medica s.r.l., Native Medica, 40138, Bologna, Italy.
Enrico GiampieriDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, 40138, Bologna, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many automated approaches have been proposed in literature to quantify clinically relevant wound features based on image processing analysis, aiming at removing human subjectivity and accelerate clinical practice. In this work we present a fully automated image processing pipeline leveraging deep learning and a large wound segmentation dataset to perform wound detection and following prediction of the Photographic Wound Assessment Tool (PWAT), automatizing the clinical judgement of the adequate wound healing. Starting from images acquired by smartphone cameras, a series of textural and morphological features are extracted from the wound areas, aiming to mimic the typical clinical considerations for wound assessment. The resulting extracted features can be easily interpreted by the clinician and allow a quantitative estimation of the PWAT scores. The features extracted from the region-of-interests detected by our pre-trained neural network model correctly predict the PWAT scale values with a Spearman's correlation coefficient of 0.85 on a set of unseen images. The obtained results agree with the current state-of-the-art and provide a benchmark for future artificial intelligence applications in this research field.

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Artificial IntelligenceBenchmarkingHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedNeural Networks, ComputerPhotographyClinical decision support systemComputer visionImage analysisPWATWound healing

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PMID38227131
PMCPMC10791717

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