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Dear community,

We are looking for a photographer with scientific, medical or
educational expertice or interest to join The Woundontology Consortium
(which is a semi-open, international, virtual community of practice
devoted to advancing the field of research in non-invasive wound
assessment by image analysis, ontology and semantic interpretation and
knowledge extraction (content–based visual information retrieval).

Basically we are looking for someone to join us and provide us with
advice on the content of a protocol for clinical professionals that
they could use during their practice with patients with chronic
wounds.

A valuable candidate will play an active role in the scientific
process we are following.

Our principal activities are related to:

Quantitative analysis of structural changes of wounds in time and
space, may increase knowledge about the underlying disease and
therapeutic process. Only recently, assessment and measurement of the
temporal changes of wounds using images taken with commercially
available digital cameras can be calibrated independently of any
camera settings and independently of illumination features. It is our
opinion that the value of this advancement can not be underestimated
in the chronic wound care arena, basically because of the growing
demand for valuable clinical trials. Photographic documentation helps
the clinician during the assessment of a wound and measures the
changes over time. In clinical settings, wounds are photographed in
color on initial assessment, then at select intervals according to
facility policy. Beside legal purposes, accurate wound image analysis
assists in designing an appropriate care plan. Therefore, integrating
conceptualizations from many different fields (e.g. dermatology,
pathology, etc), the development of a consistent, compatible and
universally used vocabulary (with the development of an application
ontology) are essential for documenting and describing wounds.
Considering this, the Consortium focuses on a project optimizing the
quantification and qualification of changes in time series and space
of macroscopic and microscopic data from images of integumentary
tissue repair by the development of a Woundontology Base.

Dr. Sven Van Poucke
Woundontology Co-ordinator
svenvanpoucke@woundontology.com
www.woundontology.com
http://groups.google.com/group/woundontology
woundontology@googlegroups.com