Title :
Metabolic.Care: A hardware and software platform to monitor and assess diabetic foot condition
Author :
Oliveira, Daniel ; Sousa, Paula ; Felizardo, Virginie ; Garcia, Nuno C. ; Alexandre, Celina ; Garcia, Nuno M.
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. Dept., Univ. of Beira Interior, Covilha, Portugal
Abstract :
This paper describes Metabolic.Care, a sub-project that integrates hardware and software with the main goal of implementing a solution that generates warnings for the diagnosis on patients with diabetic foot. This paper also describes the adopted strategies and best practices found to solve the problems.
Keywords :
diseases; infrared imaging; medical image processing; open systems; patient diagnosis; patient monitoring; Metabolic.Care; diabetic foot condition assessment; diabetic foot condition monitoring; hardware platform; image processing; interoperability; patient diagnosis warning generation; software platform; DICOM; Diabetes; Foot; Monitoring; Standards; interoperability of medical data; medical image processing;
Conference_Titel :
e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), 2014 IEEE 16th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Natal
DOI :
10.1109/HealthCom.2014.7001867
