Title: Collaborative Pressure Ulcer Prevention: An Automated Skin Damage and Pressure Ulcer Assessment Tool for Nursing Professionals, Patients, Family Members and Carers,
Abstract: This paper describes the Pressure Ulcers Online Website, which is a first
step solution towards a new and innovative platform for helping people to
detect, understand and manage pressure ulcers. It outlines the reasons why the
project has been developed and provides a central point of contact for pressure
ulcer analysis and ongoing research. Using state-of-the-art technologies in
convolutional neural networks and transfer learning along with end-to-end web
technologies, this platform allows pressure ulcers to be analysed and findings
to be reported. As the system evolves through collaborative partnerships,
future versions will provide decision support functions to describe the complex
characteristics of pressure ulcers along with information on wound care across
multiple user boundaries. This project is therefore intended to raise awareness
and support for people suffering with or providing care for pressure ulcers.