Smartphone Based Wound Assessment in Python

The physical condition that affects the way the human body processes sugar (glucose) is known as diabetes. It is an alarming issue and is one of the major causes to prolong human wounds. Wounds examination process involves an expertise and constant follow ups to check and recommend wound details. This is a costly process and troublesome in case of bed ridden patients. Various systems like MEdical Digital PHOtogrammetric System (MEDPHOS), Measurement of Area and Volume Instrument System (MAVIS) have been developed for wound assessment. The systems suffer from high cost and maintenance. Moreover, these also need an expertise to perform assessment. As smart phones have become the part and parcel of our lives, this project attempts to make use of Smart phones with a high-resolution digital camera, assessing wounds by analyzing images of chronic foot ulcers. In this paper, we have developed an android based smartphone based solution involving the patients or hospital nurses actively. Additionally, we have also developed an online “Experts review” system which would send the image analysis notifications to the user.