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Aug 3, 2026

Australian Universities Develop AI Tool to Prevent Diabetes-Related Foot Ulcer Hospitalizations

The University of Melbourne and RMIT have created THERMUL, a thermal-imaging artificial intelligence tool designed to enable early intervention for diabetes-related foot ulcers and prevent hospitalizations.

Aug 3, 2026·1 source

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▪Regular access to specialist support for diabetes-related foot ulcers can be difficult for people living in regional, rural, and remote communities
▪Diabetes-related foot ulcers can lead to infection, hospitalization, lower-limb amputation, and early death if they are not managed appropriately
▪An artificial intelligence algorithm was trained to recognize heat patterns within initial thermal images associated with ulcers that healed compared to those that did not

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