This paper proposes to combine both the texture and deep features to build a robust diabetic foot ulcer recognition system since both features represent valuable information about the disease. The proposed system consists of three stages: feature extraction, feature fusion, and DFU classification. The feature extraction is performed by extracting the handcrafted and deep features. The feature fusion is performed by concatenating both feature vectors into a single vector. The DFU classification is performed by training a random forest classifier on the fusion vectors and the resulting classifier is used then for classification. Experimental results showed that the proposed approach provides satisfactory performance in DFU, ischaemia, and infection classification.
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