Diabetic Foot Ulcer Grand Challenge 2022 Summary

Abstract

The Diabetic Foot Ulcer Challenge 2022 focused on the task of diabetic foot ulcer segmentation, based on the work completed in previous DFU challenges. The challenge provided 4000 images of full-view foot ulcer images together with corresponding delineation of ulcer regions. This paper provides an overview of the challenge, a summary of the methods proposed by the challenge participants, the results obtained from each technique, and a comparison of the challenge results. The best-performing network was a modified HarDNet-MSEG, with a Dice score of 0.7287.