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Foot temperature monitoring is of great importance in diabetic patients, as they are prone to complications such as peripheral neuropathy and vascular insufficiency. In recent years, the study of different non-invasive procedures to monitor healthy indicators is growing, due to the advances in mobile devices, micro-sensors, and also wireless sensors. The health monitoring systems are used by medical staff and also by patients when they are out of the hospital, in their personal environment. This paper presents a preliminary work to identify the specific points on the feet where the temperature sensors should be positioned. We have developed an statistical analysis of the data obtained by a thermal camera from healthy people.
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The authors acknowledge support from the Fundación Memoria D. Samuel Solórzano Barruso, through the grant FS/14-2016.
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Queiruga-Dios, A., Bullón Pérez, J., Hernández Encinas, A., Martín-Vaquero, J., Martínez Nova, A., Torreblanca González, J. (2017). Skin Temperature Monitoring to Avoid Foot Lesions in Diabetic Patients. In: Fdez-Riverola, F., Mohamad, M., Rocha, M., De Paz, J., Pinto, T. (eds) 11th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics. PACBB 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 616. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60816-7_14
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