An Efficient Foot Ulcer Determination System for Diabetic Patients

Volume 4 Issue 4 December - February 2018

Research Paper

An Efficient Foot Ulcer Determination System for Diabetic Patients

M. S. Dhanya*

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Vins Christian College of Engineering, Tamil Nadu, India.

Dhanya, M. S. (2018). An Efficient Foot Ulcer Determination System for Diabetic Patients. i-manager’s Journal on Pattern Recognition, 4(4), 32-38. https://doi.org/10.26634/jpr.4.4.14131

Abstract

Foot ulcers are the common innate mechanism of poorly controlled diabetes, forming as a result of skin tissue breakdown in the lower leg or feet. When the sugar levels are high in blood for a diabetic patient, a wound may not be cured so easily because of nerve damage. In this paper, the author has proposed a method to analyze the wounds in diabetic patients suffering from foot ulcers. Mean Shift algorithm is used to find the maximum density of the wound in the affected area and Color Clustering technique was also implemented in this system. This color clustering method helps to classify the affected region in different phases and the wound tissues are shown by various colors like red, yellow, and blue. The datasets collected from Saraswati Hospital, Parassala in India were used as input and the results provide good accuracy and high efficiency.