The present arrangement provides a system for managing diabetic foot care patients that include a communication interface for transmitting diagnostic forms to a doctor device and receiving input from the doctor device. A processor manages the transmissions and received input and a database storing the diagnostic forms and the received input, as well as pre-stored risk assessment guidelines. The system is configured to transmit the diagnostic forms to a doctor device for guiding a comprehensive foot exam, and further, to accept doctor input including at least a plurality of foot examination details and a risk pool assessment. The system compares at least a plurality of foot examination details against the pre-stored risk assessment guidelines and confirms or reject the risk pool assessment input by the doctor if the risk pool assessment is or is not congruent with requirements contained in the pre-stored risk assessment guidelines.

Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for providing a user portal to facilitate modeling of foot-related data are described.

This invention belongs to measurement methods that can be used in light industry, when measuring the shape and size of the human body parts. Disclosed is a method, over the course of which, based on a series of photographs an image of a flat object of known shape and size is identified on each photograph. The body part area is isolated from the background in the image, and the area of an arbitrary body that does not belong to the projection of the human body part is cut out. Also disclosed is a method for searching an image of a flat object of known shape and size, its projection, and the camera location and orientation, over the course of which the predicted image of the flat object is compared to the real on. Here, the particle dynamics technique is used for isolating a human body part from the image background.

The invention provides an algorithm-driven method that uses a set of mathematical techniques and numerical procedures to carry out an automatic design for therapeutic insoles. Objectives of the invention include relieving soft tissue overpressure, aligning bone segments and redistributing loads located in specific zones of the foot.

A method for measuring and evaluating functions and a shape of a shoe. The method includes providing a measuring surface with pressure sensors, acquiring pressure values with the pressure sensors via a user wearing the shoe on the user's foot standing on, walking on, and/or running on the measuring surface, evaluating the pressure values acquired by the pressure sensors via a computer program, and determining a shape, a dimension and/or a material of a bottom of the shoe based on the pressure values acquired.

A method for measuring foot size and shape by using image processing includes a step of acquiring an image captured by simultaneously photographing a user's foot and an item having a standardized size; and a calculation step of calculating foot size or shape information from the image. The image is captured when at least a part of the user's foot comes in contact with the item.

Embodiments herein provide methods, apparatus and computer systems comprising an input unit for inputting one or more data sets to be processed comprising a capacitance measuring device configured to measure one or more conductive elements on a sensor plane and provide a corresponding data set of measurements obtained from the conductive elements. A computing unit is coupled to the input unit and for processing the data sets; the computing unit comprises at least one processor with non-transient memory. An output unit is connected to the computing unit for outputting data received from the computing unit. A computer program stored in memory comprising instructions that cause the computer to isolate and discharge conductive and reference impedance elements, perform a charge transfer to the one or more conductive elements on the sensor plane, measure the relative difference between the conductive elements and reference impedance element, and store measurements in non-transient memory.

A system for capturing a plantar image is provided, which is based on a depth sensor or 3D image capturing device connected to a portable structure having: first legs; a first frame that holds a glass pane; and an elastic membrane on which a patient places his or her foot, making contact with the glass pane positioned there below, in the manner of a floor, to capture the plantar image by means of the depth sensor disposed beneath the glass pane. Respective platforms provided with a pair of second legs can be joined to the first frame. A system is provided that includes a transparent floor in a portable structure that allows the assembly to be transported so as to be able to capture the patient's plantar image in any desired place.

The scanning module can have a cantilevered foot support extending horizontally and rearwardly from an upward portion, and a base extending horizontally and rearwardly from a bottom of the upward portion, the base overhung by the foot support, the foot support having a transparent portion configured for receiving the bare human feet in a full weight standing position, and a mirror sloping downwardly from a front end of the foot support towards the rear, extending underneath the transparent portion and configured to reflect the image of the plantar face of the foot, as seen across the transparent portion, towards the rear and the sides.

Custom-made shoes and orthopedic insoles support the wearer, with these products being manufactured at specialist retailers by a method that includes the steps of: producing a footprint; capturing the footprint and a measurement standard as a footprint image using a camera; and, extracting and/or determining the characteristic foot data on the basis of the footprint image.