Android application for acquiring images of diabetic foot ulcers
Abstract
Diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) are one the most common complications of patients who have diabetes mellitus. DFU study is a worldwide problem and despite the fact that there are computer tools to contribute to its treatment, these are not available in our country or it is necessary to pay for licenses to allow their use. The correct storage of DFU images contributes to the creation of a national database for the subsequent development and fine-tuning of algorithms devoted to segment and analysis these lesions remotely and automatically. So it is important to develop an application for mobile devices that allows standardizing the acquisition of images of DFU and store basic information. Android Studio was used as the programming environment and the minimum functional requirements for the first version were met. Templates were used to take the photos that allow focusing on the specific areas where the lesion is located and to standardize the focal distance. An apk was implemented that allows the acquisition/storage of DFU images/information with a view to the creation of a national database and the development of segmentation algorithms and injury analysis automatically using Digital Image Processing, Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence techniques
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