Journal
SENSORS
Volume 22, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s22051793
Keywords
diabetic foot; thermogram; thermal change index; machine learning; deep learning
Funding
- Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), International Research Collaboration Co-Fund (IRCC)-Qatar University
- University Kebangsaan Malaysia [NPRP12S-0227190164, IRCC-2021001, DPK-2021001]
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In this study, infrared thermography and machine learning methods were used for early diagnosis of diabetic foot complications, by categorizing different classes of thermal images and obtaining validation from experts, and found that the multilayer perceptron (MLP) classifier combined with feature extraction showed the best performance in multi-class classification accuracy.
Diabetes mellitus (DM) can lead to plantar ulcers, amputation and death. Plantar foot thermogram images acquired using an infrared camera have been shown to detect changes in temperature distribution associated with a higher risk of foot ulceration. Machine learning approaches applied to such infrared images may have utility in the early diagnosis of diabetic foot complications. In this work, a publicly available dataset was categorized into different classes, which were corroborated by domain experts, based on a temperature distribution parameter-the thermal change index (TCI). We then explored different machine-learning approaches for classifying thermograms of the TCI-labeled dataset. Classical machine learning algorithms with feature engineering and the convolutional neural network (CNN) with image enhancement techniques were extensively investigated to identify the best performing network for classifying thermograms. The multilayer perceptron (MLP) classifier along with the features extracted from thermogram images showed an accuracy of 90.1% in multi-class classification, which outperformed the literature-reported performance metrics on this dataset.
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