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. 2022 Nov 21;3:189–201. doi: 10.1109/OJEMB.2022.3219725

TABLE I. Prior Wound Infection and Ischaemia Recognition Work and DFUC2021 Dataset Statistics.

(a) Prior Work on DFU Classification and Wound Infection Recognition
Authors/ Citation Specific Machine Learning problem Summary of Approach No. of target classes Best performance results
Wound Ischaemia and Infection Recognition using deep neural network models
Goyal et al. 2020 [12] DFU wound Ischaemia and Infection Recognition Ensemble CNN 2 classes (Ischaemia: Yes/No; Infection: Yes/No) accuracy (Ischaemia: 90%, Infection: 73%)
Yap et al. 2021 [16] DFU wound Ischaemia and Infection Recognition VGG16, ResNet101, InceptionV3, DenseNet121, EfficientNet 4 classes (both Infection and Ischaemia, Infection, Ischaemia, None) EfficientNet B0: macro-average Precision, Recall and F1-Score of 0.57, 0.62 and 0.55
Al-Garaawi et al. 2022 [26] DFU wound Ischaemia and Infection Recognition CNN-based DFU classification method Part A: 2 classes (healthy skin and DFU); Part B: 2 classes (Ischaemia: Yes/No; Infection: Yes/No) Ischaemia: 0.995% (AUC), 0.990% (F-measure) Infection: 0.820% (AUC), 0.744% (F-measure)
Wound Infection Recognition using deep neural network models
Wang et al. 2015 [23] wound segmentation and infection detection deep neural network, SVM 2 classes (infection and no infection) infection classification accuracy 95.6%
Nejati et al. 2018 [24] classification of 7 tissue types including infection deep neural network, SVM 7 classes (Necrotic, Healthy Gran, Slough, Infected, Unhealthy Gran, Hyper Gran, Epithelialization) tissue classification accuracy 86.4%
Wound Infection Recognition using traditional machine learning techniques
Hsu et al. 2017 [21] detection of 4 tissue types including infection clustering method and classification using SVM 4 classes (Swelling, Blood Region, Infected, Tissue Necrosis) detection accuracy of 95.23%
Hsu et al. 2019 [22] wound segmentation and infection detection robust image segmentation, classification using SVM 4 classes (Swelling, Granulation, Infection, Tissue Necrosis) tissue classification accuracy 83.58
(b) Statistics of Different Versions of the DFUC2021 Dataset
Authors/ Citation Specific Machine Learning problem No. of target classes Statistics of dataset
Goyal et al. 2020 [12] DFUC2021 dataset classification 2 classes (Ischaemia: Yes, No; Infection: Yes, No) Ischaemia: (Yes, 235; No, 1431) augmented to (Yes, 4935; No, 4935); Infection: (Yes, 982; No, 684) augmented to (Yes, 2946; No, 2946)
Yap et al. 2021 [16] DFUC2021 dataset classification 4 classes (both Infection and Ischaemia, Infection, Ischaemia, None) both Infection and Ischaemia: 621; Infection: 2555; Ischaemia: 277; none of them: 2552
Al-Garaawi et al. 2022 [26] DFU dataset classification and DFUC2021 dataset classification Part A: 2 classes (healthy skin and DFU); Part B: 2 classes (Ischaemia: Yes, No; Infection: Yes, No) Part A: 641 healthy, 1038 Ulcer Part B: Ischaemia: augmented (Yes, 4935; No, 4935); Infection: augmented (Yes, 2946; No, 2946)
Goyal et al. 2018 [25] DFU dataset classification 2 classes (healthy skin and DFU) 641 healthy, 1038 DFU