Diabetic foot ulcer healing with polylactic acid membrane assessed by thermographic imaging: a case report
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Diabetic foot ulcers reduce patient's quality of life and increase treatment costs, evaluating this condition is promising. We report the clinical progression of an elderly patient who developed a diabetic foot ulcer following minor trauma. She was treated for over 2 months until her condition progressed to Grade 4 on the Wagner Classification of Diabetic Foot. A Serial infrared thermography was performed. The treatment plan included antibiotics and a polylactic acid membrane until complete ulcer remission. Thermographic imaging showed a quantitative reduction of the temperature differences between the affected and contralateral foot from an initial ΔT: -4.6°C ± 2.4, progressing to ΔT: -1.7°C ± 1.6 at 12 weeks, and a temperature reduction from the proximal third tibial area with ΔT: -1.7°C ± 0.6, with a change to ΔT 0.8°C ± 0.4 at 12 weeks near the metatarsal bone region. This article underscores the use of infrared thermography to give physicians feedback on ulcer healing progression phases and treatment effectiveness.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".