DFU Challenge

2021 Challenge Schedule

Training dataset release
27th April 2021
Validation dataset release
21st June 2021
Test image dataset release
1st July 2021
Submission deadline
15th July 2021
Winner and invitation speakers
15th August 2021

DFUC 2021

Analysis Towards Classification of Infection & Ischaemia of Diabetic Foot Ulcers

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Dataset Descriptions and Baselines

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Grand Challenge Website

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This challenge is now closed. Thank you to all who participated.

If you are interested in future research, you can still request the dataset as we have opened the evaluation system (Live Leaderboard).

DFUC 2021 is hosted by MICCAI 2021, the 24th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention.

https://www.miccai2021.org/en/

DFUC 2021 Results

Rank	Team	Institute
1	Adrian Galdran	Bournemouth University, UK
2	Louise Bloch, Raphael Brüngel and Christoph M. Friedrich	University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Germany
3	Salman Ahmed and Hammad Naveed	National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan
4	Abdul Qayyum, Abdesslam Benzinou, Moona Mazher and Fabrice Meriaudeau	National Engineering School of Brest, France
5	Orhun Guley, Sarthak Pati and Spyridon Bakas	University of Pennsylvania, USA and Technical University of Munich, Germany

The prize for the winning team of DFUC 2021 is an NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3090 GPU. MMU would like to thank NVIDIA for their sponsorship of DFUC 2021.

Click Here to View the Top 10 Results

Organisers

Moi Hoon Yap

Professor of Image and Vision Computing; Lead, Human-Centred Computing; Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Neil Reeves

Faculty Head of Research and Knowledge Exchange (RKE); Professor of Musculoskeletal Biomechanics; Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Andrew Boulton

Professor of Medicine; University of Manchester and Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK

Satyan Rajbhandari

Consultant Physician and Honorary Clinical Professor; Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, UK

David Armstrong

Professor of Surgery; University of Southern California, USA

Arun G. Maiya

President; Karnataka Chapter, Indian Podiatry Association, India

Bijan Najafi

Professor of Surgery and Director of Clinical Research; Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, USA

Bill Cassidy

Senior Research Associate; Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Justina Wu

Clinical Director at Waikato District Health Board, New Zealand

Technical Chairs

Connah Kendrick, Manchester Metropolitan University
David Gillespie, Manchester Metropolitan University

Clinical Chairs

Pappachan Joseph, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals
Claire O'Shea, Waikato District Health Board

Underpinning Research

The MICCAI DFU Challenges are part of a wider research initiative at Manchester Metropolitan University to create a fully automated DFU detection system that can be used by diabetic patients, their family, or carers. Click the image above for more details.