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Due to diabetic neuropathy, most patients have reduced sensitivity to\u00a0pain. As a result, minor injuries go unnoticed and progress into ulcers. The timely detection of potential ulceration points and intervention is crucial in preventing amputation. Changes in plantar temperature are one of the early signs of ulceration. Previous studies have focused on either binary classification or grading of DM severity, but neglect the holistic consideration of the problem. Moreover, multi-class studies exhibit severe performance variations between different classes.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>We propose a new convolutional neural network for discrimination between non-DM and five DM severity grades from plantar thermal images and compare its performance against pre-trained networks such as AlexNet and related works. We address the lack of data and imbalanced class distribution, prevalent in prior work, achieving well-balanced classification performance.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Our proposed model achieved the best performance with a mean accuracy of 0.9827, mean sensitivity of 0.9684 and mean specificity of 0.9892 in combined diabetic foot detection and grading.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>To the best of our knowledge, this study sets a new state-of-the-art in plantar foot thermogram detection and grading, while being the first to implement a holistic multi-class classification and grading solution. 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