Wound Area Measurement with Digital Planimetry: Improved Accuracy and Precision with Calibration Based on 2 Rulers

Piotr Foltynski; Piotr Ladyzynski; Anna Ciechanowska; Karolina Migalska-Musial; Grzegorz Judzewicz; Stanislawa Sabalinska

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0134622

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Wound Area Measurement with Digital Planimetry: Improved Accuracy and Precision with Calibration Based on 2 Rulers

Piotr Foltynski ,

* E-mail: pfoltynski@ibib.waw.pl

Affiliation Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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Piotr Ladyzynski ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Piotr Ladyzynski, Anna Ciechanowska, Karolina Migalska-Musial, Grzegorz Judzewicz, Stanislawa Sabalinska

Affiliation Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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Anna Ciechanowska ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Piotr Ladyzynski, Anna Ciechanowska, Karolina Migalska-Musial, Grzegorz Judzewicz, Stanislawa Sabalinska

Affiliation Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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Karolina Migalska-Musial ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Piotr Ladyzynski, Anna Ciechanowska, Karolina Migalska-Musial, Grzegorz Judzewicz, Stanislawa Sabalinska

Affiliation Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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Grzegorz Judzewicz ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Piotr Ladyzynski, Anna Ciechanowska, Karolina Migalska-Musial, Grzegorz Judzewicz, Stanislawa Sabalinska

Affiliation Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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Stanislawa Sabalinska

Contributed equally to this work with: Piotr Ladyzynski, Anna Ciechanowska, Karolina Migalska-Musial, Grzegorz Judzewicz, Stanislawa Sabalinska

Affiliation Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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Wound Area Measurement with Digital Planimetry: Improved Accuracy and Precision with Calibration Based on 2 Rulers

Piotr Foltynski,
Piotr Ladyzynski,
Anna Ciechanowska,
Karolina Migalska-Musial,
Grzegorz Judzewicz,
Stanislawa Sabalinska

Published: August 7, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0134622

About the Authors

Piotr Foltynski

* E-mail: pfoltynski@ibib.waw.pl

Affiliation Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Piotr Ladyzynski

Contributed equally to this work with: Piotr Ladyzynski, Anna Ciechanowska, Karolina Migalska-Musial, Grzegorz Judzewicz, Stanislawa Sabalinska

Affiliation Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Anna Ciechanowska

Contributed equally to this work with: Piotr Ladyzynski, Anna Ciechanowska, Karolina Migalska-Musial, Grzegorz Judzewicz, Stanislawa Sabalinska

Affiliation Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Karolina Migalska-Musial

Contributed equally to this work with: Piotr Ladyzynski, Anna Ciechanowska, Karolina Migalska-Musial, Grzegorz Judzewicz, Stanislawa Sabalinska

Affiliation Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Grzegorz Judzewicz

Contributed equally to this work with: Piotr Ladyzynski, Anna Ciechanowska, Karolina Migalska-Musial, Grzegorz Judzewicz, Stanislawa Sabalinska

Affiliation Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Stanislawa Sabalinska

Contributed equally to this work with: Piotr Ladyzynski, Anna Ciechanowska, Karolina Migalska-Musial, Grzegorz Judzewicz, Stanislawa Sabalinska

Affiliation Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PF PL. Performed the experiments: AC KM GJ SS. Analyzed the data: PF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PF. Wrote the paper: PF.

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