"Diabetic foot ulcers develop for up to 1 in 3 patients with diabetes. While ulcers are costly to manage and often necessitate an amputation, they are preventable if intervention is initiated early. However, with current standard of care, it is difficult to know which patients are at highest risk of developing an ulcer. Recently, thermal monitoring has been shown to catch the development of complications around 35 days in advance of onset. We seek to use thermal scans of patients’ with diabetes feet to automatically detect and classify a patient’s risk for foot ulcer development so that intervention may be initiated." (Huemer et. al, 2022)

The above abstract taken from "Preventing diabetic foot ulcers in low resource settings using Pedal Elevated Temperature Risk Assessment (PETRA)" represents the background of this work.  I was tasked by Kayla Huemer(Stanford Alumni 2021) to help design the user centered thermal imaging app to collect data in field in India. We worked with care providers in field as well as tech assistance in India to implement this app and device.  We are in the later stages of data collection and are awaiting follow up results.  

Details of this design cannot be released due to IP.