Background: Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) are a life-changing complication of diabetes. There is increasing evidence that remote plantar temperature monitoring can reduce the recurrence of DFUs. Once daily foot temperature monitoring is the current…
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Background: Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease characterized by painful, disfiguring, inflammatory lesions such as nodules, abscesses and fistulas in intertriginous sites. It significantly impacts patients’ quality of life. Early diagnosis…
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A free image library, showing how diseases appear on different skin tones, has been launched to help prevent misdiagnosis for people with darker skin.
Many medical conditions appear differently based on skin tone, but typically…
Sebaceous gland carcinoma (SGC) and some poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinomas (SC) of the eyelid may have overlapping clinical and histopathologic features, leading to potential misdiagnosis and delayed treatment. The authors developed a deep…
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Author: Kavita Parmar, Co-founder, Word360Ahead of the upcoming 10 Year Plan, healthcare organisations across England are facing growing pressure to streamline operations through digital transformation, improve patient outcomes and optimise operational costs. One often-overlooked…
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Distributed learning enables collaborative machine learning model training without requiring cross-institutional data sharing, thereby addressing privacy concerns. However, local quality control variability can negatively impact model performance while systematic human visual inspection is time-consuming…
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Misdiagnosis in healthcare, particularly in emergency settings, is a critical issue that has far-reaching consequences for patients and healthcare systems alike. The introduction of advanced, cost-effective imaging technologies at the point of care is…
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