FUSeg: The Foot Ulcer Segmentation Challenge

Understand

Acute and chronic wounds with varying etiologies burden the healthcare systems economically.

• The advanced wound care market is estimated to reach $22 billion by 2024.
• Wound care professionals provide proper diagnosis and treatment with heavy reliance on images and image documentation.
• Segmentation of wound boundaries in images is a key component of the care and diagnosis protocol since it is important to estimate the area of the wound and provide quantitative measurement for the treatment.