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Three instance segmentation models (Mask2former, Deeplabv3plus, and Swin-Transformer) were constructed to identify DFU, and the segmentation and classification results of the three models were compared.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Among the three models, Mask2former exhibited the best recognition performance, with a mean Intersection over Union of 65%, surpassing Deeplabv3\u2019s 62% and Swin-Transformer\u2019s 52%. The Intersection over Union value of Mask2former for wound recognition reached 85.9%, with IoU values of 80%, 78%, 62%, 61%, 47%, and 39% for granulation tissue, gangrene, bone tissue, necrotic tissue, tendons, and periwound erythema, respectively. In the wound classification task, the Mask2former model achieved an accuracy of 0.9185 and an Area Under the Curve of 0.9429 for the classification of Wagner grade 1-2, grade 3, and grade 4 wounds.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Among the three deep learning models, the Mask2former model demonstrated the best overall performance. 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