Mobile metadata assisted community database of chronic wound images

Abstract The clinical diagnosis is increasingly getting dependent on chronic wound images for screening, diagnosis, treatment planning, and routine check-ups. This work aims proposing a methodology for development of a chronic wound image database which may facilitate treatment of wounds with the help of store-and-forward Telemedicine approach for accessing the status of chronic wounds. This may further help a patient to acquire timely advice of his/her medical problem. Our major objective is to develop an integrated approach of free publicly available global chronic wound community database of chronic wound images for pressure, diabetic, arterial and venous ulcer and its annotation with the supporting metadata through Telemedicine platform. In this paper we describe a smart-phone integrated low cost and ever greater quality based metadata creation process for chronic wound image acquisition at patient side and also provide a smooth interaction between doctor and patients remotely, end-to-end routine based diagnostic and maintaining patient history respectively. The paper describes a prototype system that demonstrates and tests the approach. The implementation and simulation is carried out using Hypertext preprocessor (PHP) and MySqL database.