Image-Based Determination of the Growth or Shrinkage of Wounds at the Dermal Layer

Acute and chronic wounds affect people of all ages around the world. Monitoring the size of open wounds has been proven to be effective for the diagnosis and prognosis of several medical complication such as ulcers, chronic wounds, and a variety of infections. This work presents an image-based approach to calculate the percentage of growth or shrinkage of wounds at the dermal layer. Image segmentation is applied to determine the region of interest in the wound image. Changes in the wound size (area) are computed to quantify the healing percentage.