Hummingbird-Optimizer and Otsu/Kapur-Assisted Segmentation of Foot Ulcer

In addition to traditional approaches, several computerized techniques have been developed to enhance the results. The automation in the medical domain considerably reduced the burden and improved disease diagnosis, treatment planning, and implementation. With the advent of automation, the medical domain has greatly reduced the burden of diagnosing diseases, developing treatment plans, and implementing them. This research aims to develop image-processing assisted detection of Diabetic Foot Ulcer (DF) from digital photographs. Digital photographs are used to assist in diagnosing Diabetic Foot Ulcer (DF). As part of the developed tool, (i) images are collected and resized, (ii) Otsu/Kapur and Hummingbird-optimizer thresholding is supported, (iii) level-set segmentation is used to extract the DF region, and (iv) the developed scheme is compared with the binary mask and its performance is verified. A total of 300 images are examined in this work, and MATLAB software is used to conduct the experiments. Comparing Otsu + LS with Kapur + LS, the overall result achieved with Kapur’s enhanced image is better than that of Otsu + LS. Authentic clinical DF images can be used to verify the proposed scheme in the future.