Semi-Automatic Segmentation of Ulcers for Larval Therapy

• Vítor de G. Marques UFRN
• Bruno Motta de Carvalho UFRN
• Bruno Santana da Silva UFRN
• Julianny Barreto Ferraz Hospital Universitário Onofre Lopes
• Renata Antonaci Gama UFRN

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbcas.2017.3708

Abstract

The Larval Therapy (LT) is an alternative method for treatment hard healing wounds. It uses immature flies for cleaning these wounds, decreasing the need of amputations. A more efficient use of LT considers the wound area. For this calculation invasive techniques are usually used, like manual planimetry with plastic film. We investigate a noninvasive technique to guide LT with image analysis of wounds. This paper presents the use of Watershed algorithm to semi-automatic segmentation of wounds that will be submitted to LT.

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