Across the world, more than 500 million people live with diabetes, and for roughly one in three of them, a foot ulcer becomes a quiet crisis — one that can end in amputation or early death when specialist care arrives too late or not at all. Researchers at the University of Melbourne and RMIT have developed THERMUL, an AI-powered thermal imaging tool that reads the heat signatures of wounds through a smartphone camera to predict, within the first weeks of treatment, whether a foot ulcer will heal or spiral toward serious complication. The tool's promise lies not only in its clinical precision
AI thermal imaging tool THERMUL shows promise in predicting diabetes foot ulcer healing
Diabetes-related foot ulcers affect 500M+ people globally, with 34% developing ulcers that can lead to infection, hospitalization, amputation, and early death without proper management.