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The Woundontology Consortium 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).

Chronic Wound

Pixel cloud of wound bed in sRGB

Pixel cloud of wound bed in sRGB (other rotation)

Rat secondary dressing

• 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 RCT's.
• 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 knowledge 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.

The Woundontology Base is a multi-site collaborative effort among (non)-academic labs that produces tools to support data management of wound images:

• Woundontology Base Concept Draft. version 1.01
• Woundontology Use Cases
• Woundontology Community Portal
• Woundontology Current Events
• Woundontology Base Communication
• Woundontology Consortium
• Wound Imaging Ontology Workflow

The Woundontology Base is divided into several projects and working groups:

• Wound Image Base Working Group
• Wound Image Visual Diagnostic Expert Group
• Wound Image Colour, Texture and Shape Group
• Wound Image Ontology Working Group