title: Diagnostic and Prognostic Utility of Non-Invasive Multimodal Imaging in Chronic Wound Monitoring: a Systematic Review.
abstract: Monitoring chronic wound [CW] healing is a challenging issue for clinicians across the world. Moreover, the health and cost burden of CW are escalating at a disturbing rate due to a global rise in population of elderly and diabetic cases. The conventional approach includes visual contour, sketches, or more rarely tracings. However, such conventional techniques bring forth infection, pain, allergies. Furthermore, these methods are subjective as well as time-consuming. As such, nowadays, non-touching and non-invasive CW monitoring system based on imaging techniques are gaining importance. They not only reduce patients' discomfort but also provide rapid wound diagnosis and prognosis. This review provides a survey of different types of CW characteristics, their healing mechanism and the multimodal non-invasive imaging methods that have been used for their diagnosis and prognosis. Current clinical practices as well as personal health systems [m-health and e-health] for CW monitoring have been discussed.
authors.affiliation: Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. rashmikgpiit@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Rashmi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mukherjee
authors.affiliation: School of Medical Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
authors.forename: Suman
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tewary
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
authors.forename: Aurobinda
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Routray
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D005337:Fibrin / Q000378:metabolism; D005353:Fibronectins / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D018836:Inflammation Mediators / Q000378:metabolism; D018613:Microscopy, Confocal / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D061848:Optical Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D011379:Prognosis; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013057:Spectrum Analysis / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology*; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology*
chemical_list: D005353:Fibronectins; D018836:Inflammation Mediators; D005337:Fibrin
keywords: Chronic wound; Health systems; Imaging modalities; Wound monitoring