Authors:
Laura Morente
1
;
Francisco J. Veredas
2
;
Héctor Mesa
2
and
Enrique Morris
2
Affiliations:
1
Escuela Universitaria de Enfermería and Diputación Provincial de Málaga, Spain
;
2
Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Keyword(s):
Pressure Ulcer, Computational Intelligence, Computer Vision, Teleassistance, e-Learning, Nursing Informatics, Software, Collaborative Diagnosis.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Cardiovascular Technologies
;
Cloud Computing
;
Computing and Telecommunications in Cardiology
;
Data Engineering
;
Databases and Datawarehousing
;
Decision Support Systems
;
e-Health
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
Healthcare Management Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Management
;
Medical and Nursing Informatics
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
;
Platforms and Applications
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Telemedicine
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
The pressure ulcer is a clinical pathology with high prevalence rates, which involve high costs for the Health systems. The health promotion carried on these lesions, as well as the prevention, suitable evaluation and correct treatment, have become effective indicators of the quality of health assistance. PULAB (Pressure Ulcer LABoratory) is a computational tool that enables remote management, diagnosis and monitoring of pressure ulcers, which include digital images of the wounds. This teleassistance software gives support to the collaborative work of multiple clinical experts to concurrently evaluate the pressure ulcers by reaching consensus on each particular case, based on the effective analysis of automatically segmented and tissue-labeled images of the wounds. In the current phase of our research project an e-learning module for pressure ulcer diagnosis education is being designed, which will turn this software into a valuable pedagogical tool for pressure-ulcer-management train
ing for undergraduate students and professional clinicians.
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