Wound area changes over multiple weeks are highly predictive of the wound healing process. A big data eHealth system would be very helpful in evaluating these changes. We usually analyze images of the wound bed for diagnosing injury. Unfortunately, accurate measurements of wound region changes from images are difficult. Many factors affect the quality of images, such as intensity inhomogeneity and color distortion. To this end, we propose a fast level set model-based method for intensity inhomogeneity correction and a spectral properties-based color correction method to overcome these obstacles. State-of-the-art level set methods can segment objects well. However, such methods are time-consuming and inefficient. In contrast to conventional approaches, the proposed model integrates a new signed energy force function that can detect contours at weak or blurred edges efficiently. It ensures the smoothness of the level set function and reduces the computational complexity of re-initialization. To increase the speed of the algorithm further, we also include an additive operator-splitting algorithm in our fast level set model. In addition, we consider using a camera, lighting, and spectral properties to recover the actual color. Numerical synthetic and real-world images demonstrate the advantages of the proposed method over state-of-the-art methods. Experimental results also show that the proposed model is at least twice as fast as methods used widely.Recently, millions of patients are suffering from chronic wounds. The time-consuming wound assessments are not always feasible because of the high volume of patients. Consequently, accurate diagnosis and careful treatment will highly rely on expertise and experience. Advances in computer vision and artificial intelligence enable the analysis of wound images by big data and cloud computing. Big data is popular information and communication technologies paradigms. The big data-based approaches can be combined for directing the next generation of eHealth systems. However, because the imaging systems are difficult, the captured images have low quality, which
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