The paper introduces two YOLOv11-based instance segmentation models that simultaneously perform wound boundary segmentation and wound classification across five clinically relevant wound types. Using a balanced dataset of 2,963 annotated images and data augmentation, the models achieve high performance, with YOLOv11x excelling in boundary segmentation and YOLOv11m and YOLOv11l leading in classification metrics. The lightweight YOLOv11n variant offers comparable accuracy with lower computational demands, making it suitable for resource-constrained clinical and remote care deployments.
By Mehedi Hasan Tusar, Fateme Fayyazbakhsh, Igor Melnychuk, Ming C. Leu
WoundAIssist is an AI‑driven mobile application designed to support remote chronic wound care for elderly patients. It allows patients to capture wound images and complete questionnaires at home, while physicians monitor progress through remote video consultations and on‑device deep‑learning segmentation. A usability study involving patients and dermatologists found the app to be highly usable, of good quality, and positively received for its AI‑driven wound recognition.
By Vanessa Borst, Anna Riedmann, Tassilo Dege, Konstantin M\"uller, Astrid Schmieder, Birgit Lugrin, Samuel Kounev
The paper introduces the Semantic Tri-view Pipeline, an interpretable system that automatically screens teledermatology photographs for gradability by analyzing epidermal micro-relief across up to three smartphone views. It uses a lightweight DeepLabV3+ model to segment micro-relief fidelity and aggregates the resulting spatial masks with logistic regression, leveraging viewpoint redundancy to improve robustness. Evaluated on the SCIN dataset, the approach raises the AUC from 0.81 to 0.96 on optically clear cases, offering real‑time, privacy‑by‑design feedback to filter ungradable photo sets before clinician review.
By Robert Engel
arXiv:2608.21583v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Oral cancer is a leading cause of mortality in low-to-middle-income countries, where a shortage of specialists delays diagnosis. While point-of-care sc...
By Siddhant Bharadwaj, Aakash Shedsale, Tejashree Subramanya, Mohd. Azfar, Praveen Birur, Debnath Pal, Shankararama Sharma, Anupama Shetty, Rajesh Sundaresan
arXiv:2603. 27341v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent Artificial Intelligence (AI) models have matched or exceeded human experts in several benchmarks of biomedical task performance, but surgical benchmarks in particular are often missing from prominent medical benchmark suites.
By Kirill Skobelev, Eric Fithian, Yegor Baranovski, Jack Cook, Sandeep Angara, Shauna Otto, Zhuang-Fang Yi, John Zhu, Neeraj Mainkar, Margaux Masson-Forsythe, Daniel A. Donoho, X. Y. Han
LUTSeg is a new longitudinal dataset for chronic ulcer tissue segmentation, containing 141 images from 39 patients with wound masks and five tissue categories annotated by five expert clinicians. The dataset includes a multi‑expert gold‑standard subset for inter‑rater agreement analysis. The authors also propose TiSage, a semi‑supervised segmentation framework that uses multi‑scale semantic priors from a frozen medical vision‑language model within a teacher‑student architecture, and demonstrate its effectiveness on LUTSeg and DFUTissue.
By Karen Sanchez, Carlos Hinojosa, Albert A. \'Avila, Andrea C. Riano-Rojas, Diego H. Romero, Jenny C. P\'aez, Martina Llin\'as, Bernard Ghanem