SHB: Medium: Self-Care Management: Patient-Centered Diabetic Wound Care Using Smart Phones

该项目解决了糖尿病足溃疡患者的具体健康挑战，并重点关注两个关键挑战：自动分析糖尿病足溃疡患者的伤口愈合进展，以及利用技术激励这些患者更好地照顾他们的伤口和糖尿病。拟议的智能手机应用程序需要开发图像分析算法，并以患者为中心，旨在改善患者的健康和福祉，这些患者正在经历严重和昂贵的健康问题。在这项工作的执行中，该项目扩展了学生的医学教育，包括最先进的计算技术如何帮助治疗。这项研究具有重要的社会意义，为糖尿病足溃疡等晚期疾病患者提供了技术支持。此外，它提高了生活质量，降低了保健费用。最后，跨学科研究团队的成果广泛传播到多个学科，具有相当的多样性。团队的多样性和医疗保健应用程序的社会价值有助于招募不同群体的学生。

The project addresses specific health challenges of patients with diabetic foot ulcers and focuses on two key challenges: automatically analyzing wound healing progress of patients with diabetic foot ulcers, and using technology to motivate these patients to better care for their wounds and their diabetes. The proposed smart phone application requires the development of image analysis algorithms and is patient-centered and aims to improve patient health and wellbeing in a patient population that is experiencing severe and expensive health problems.In the performance of this work, the project extends the medical education of students to include how state-of-the-art computing technologies can assist healing. This research is of societal importance and provides technology-enabled care for patients with advanced problems like diabetic foot ulcers. Furthermore, it improves the quality of lives and reduces health care costs. Finally, the cross-disciplinary research team broadly disseminates results to multiple disciplines and is quite diverse. The team's diversity and the societal value of a health care application are helpful in recruiting a diverse group of students.