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Digital imaging of wounds: are measurements reproducible among observers?

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Quan, SY; Lazarus, GS; Kohli, AR; Kapoor, R; Margolis, DJ
Published in: Int J Low Extrem Wounds
December 2007

Advances in digital imaging and archiving have made the measurement and documentation of wound areas possible over time. To assess the reproducibility and precision of digital image measurements, we used WoundMatrix Web (http://www.woundmatrix.com/) and recruited a group of caregivers from the Johns Hopkins Wound Center to measure the size of wounds on digital images by measuring length and width and tracing the circumference of the same wounds. One set of images was provided by WoundMatrix (WoundMatrix Inc, Chadds Ford, PA) and a second set used our own photographs taken at the Johns Hopkins Wound Center. Our results demonstrate that digital analysis with WoundMatrix Web is reproducible and precise with acceptable variation among readers. This supports the use of digital images of wounds to follow clinical progress as well as analyze the effects of new clinical interventions in clinical trials.

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Published In

Int J Low Extrem Wounds

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ISSN

1534-7346

Publication Date

December 2007

Volume

6

Issue

4

Start / End Page

245 / 248

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Wound Healing
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Internet
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Humans
  • Documentation
  • Dermatology & Venereal Diseases
  • 3202 Clinical sciences
  • 1103 Clinical Sciences
 

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Quan, S. Y., Lazarus, G. S., Kohli, A. R., Kapoor, R., & Margolis, D. J. (2007). Digital imaging of wounds: are measurements reproducible among observers? Int J Low Extrem Wounds, 6(4), 245–248. https://doi.org/10.1177/1534734607306880
Quan, Susan Y., Gerald S. Lazarus, Angela R. Kohli, Roger Kapoor, and David J. Margolis. “Digital imaging of wounds: are measurements reproducible among observers?Int J Low Extrem Wounds 6, no. 4 (December 2007): 245–48. https://doi.org/10.1177/1534734607306880.
Quan SY, Lazarus GS, Kohli AR, Kapoor R, Margolis DJ. Digital imaging of wounds: are measurements reproducible among observers? Int J Low Extrem Wounds. 2007 Dec;6(4):245–8.
Quan, Susan Y., et al. “Digital imaging of wounds: are measurements reproducible among observers?Int J Low Extrem Wounds, vol. 6, no. 4, Dec. 2007, pp. 245–48. Pubmed, doi:10.1177/1534734607306880.
Quan SY, Lazarus GS, Kohli AR, Kapoor R, Margolis DJ. Digital imaging of wounds: are measurements reproducible among observers? Int J Low Extrem Wounds. 2007 Dec;6(4):245–248.
Journal cover image

Published In

Int J Low Extrem Wounds

DOI

ISSN

1534-7346

Publication Date

December 2007

Volume

6

Issue

4

Start / End Page

245 / 248

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Wound Healing
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Internet
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Humans
  • Documentation
  • Dermatology & Venereal Diseases
  • 3202 Clinical sciences
  • 1103 Clinical Sciences