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Diabetic foot complications have multiple adverse effects in a person's quality of life. Yet, efficient monitoring schemes can mitigate or postpone any disorders, mainly by early detecting regions of interest. Nowadays, optical sensors and artificial intelligence (AI) tools can contribute efficiently to such monitoring processes. In this work, we provide information on the adopted imaging schemes and related optical sensors on this topic. The analysis considers both the physiology of the patients and the characteristics of the sensors. Currently, there are multiple approaches considering both visible and infrared bands (multiple ranges), most of them coupled with various AI tools. The source of the data (sensor type) can support different monitoring strategies and imposes restrictions on the AI tools that should be used with. This review provides a comprehensive literature review of AI-assisted DFU monitoring methods. The paper presents the outcomes of a large number of recently published scholarly articles. Furthermore, the paper discusses the highlights of these methods and the challenges for transferring these methods into a practical and trustworthy framework for sufficient remote management of the patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, we propose a tensor-based learning model to efficiently detect abnormalities on digital mammograms. Due to the fact that the availability of medical data is limited and often restricted by GDPR (general data protection regulation) compliance, the need for more sophisticated and less data-hungry approaches is urgent. Accordingly, our proposed artificial intelligence framework utilizes the canonical polyadic decomposition to decrease the trainable parameters of the wrapped Rank-R FNN model, leading to efficient learning using small amounts of data. Our model was evaluated on the open source digital mammographic database INBreast and compared with state-of-the-art models in this domain. The experimental results show that the proposed solution performs well in comparison with the other deep learning models, such as AlexNet and SqueezeNet, achieving 90% ± 4% accuracy and an F1 score of 84% ± 5%. Additionally, our framework tends to attain more robust performance with small numbers of data and is computationally lighter for inference purposes, due to the small number of trainable parameters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]