Enhance wound healing monitoring through a thermal imaging based smartphone app

Steven Yi; Minta Lu; Adam Yee; John Harmon; Frank Meng; Saurabh Hinduja

doi:10.1117/12.2293674

6 March 2018 Enhance wound healing monitoring through a thermal imaging based smartphone app

Steven Yi, Minta Lu, Adam Yee, John Harmon, Frank Meng, Saurabh Hinduja

Proceedings Volume 10579, Medical Imaging 2018: Imaging Informatics for Healthcare, Research, and Applications; 105791P (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2293674
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2018, Houston, Texas, United States

Abstract

In this paper, we present a thermal imaging based app to augment traditional appearance based wound growth monitoring. Accurate diagnose and track of wound healing enables physicians to effectively assess, document, and individualize the treatment plan given to each wound patient. Currently, wounds are primarily examined by physicians through visual appearance and wound area. However, visual information alone cannot present a complete picture on a wound’s condition. In this paper, we use a smartphone attached thermal imager and evaluate its effectiveness on augmenting visual appearance based wound diagnosis. Instead of only monitoring wound temperature changes on a wound, our app presents physicians a comprehensive measurements including relative temperature, wound healing thermal index, and wound blood flow. Through the rat wound experiments and by monitoring the integrated thermal measurements over 3 weeks of time frame, our app is able to show the underlying healing process through the blood flow. The implied significance of our app design and experiment includes: (a) It is possible to use a low cost smartphone attached thermal imager for added value on wound assessment, tracking, and treatment; and (b) Thermal mobile app can be used for remote wound healing assessment for mobile health based solution.

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Steven Yi, Minta Lu, Adam Yee, John Harmon, Frank Meng, and Saurabh Hinduja "Enhance wound healing monitoring through a thermal imaging based smartphone app", Proc. SPIE 10579, Medical Imaging 2018: Imaging Informatics for Healthcare, Research, and Applications, 105791P (6 March 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2293674

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