Chronic wounds, are a worldwide health problem affecting populations and economies as a whole. With the increase in age-related diseases, obesity, and diabetes, the costs of chronic wound healing will further increase. Wound assessment should be fast...
Journal of burn care & research : official publication of the American Burn Association
37082889
Currently, the incorrect judgment of burn depth remains common even among experienced surgeons. Contributing to this problem are change in burn appearance throughout the first week requiring periodic evaluation until a confident diagnosis can be made...
INTRODUCTION: The clinical characterization of the functional status of active wounds in terms of their driving cellular and molecular biology remains a considerable challenge that currently requires excision via a tissue biopsy. In this pilot study,...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
37067977
OBJECTIVE: An accurate and timely diagnosis of burn severity is critical to ensure a positive outcome. Laser Doppler imaging (LDI) has become a very useful tool for this task. It measures the perfusion of the burn and estimates its potential healing ...
Wounds : a compendium of clinical research and practice
37956346
BACKGROUND: Evidence shows that ongoing accurate wound assessments using valid and reliable measurement methods is essential to effective wound monitoring and better wound care management. Relying on subjective interpretation in measuring wound dimen...
The peripheral nerves (PNs) innervate the dermis and epidermis, and are suggested to play an important role in wound healing. Several methods to quantify skin innervation during wound healing have been reported. Those usually require multiple observe...
Hardly any other field of application of artificial intelligence (AI) needs more ethics by design than medicine; however, if a deep integration of ethical principles succeeds there is a chance of "deep healing", for each individual and also for medic...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
37549083
Although the concept of digital twin technology has been in existence for nearly half a century, its application in healthcare is a relatively recent development. In healthcare, the utilization of digital twin and data-driven models has proven to enh...