A new 360-degree perspective on wound care has already attracted attention from the health care industry, and Assistant Professor Salam Daher and Dahlia Musa Ph.D. ’25 from NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing have a goal to further develop a 3D graphics simulation tool to patent it for commercial use.
Their submission to “Simventors” (short for simulation inventors) to demonstrate a “System to Visualize, Measure, and Track Simulated Wounds in 3D” recently won the Best Innovation Award at the International Meeting for Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) 2025 in Orlando, Florida. The work is a collaboration with the University of Central Florida College of Nursing. The IMSH is a scientific conference that explores the latest innovations and best practices in health care simulation.
Daher, an expert at the intersection of computing and health care simulation, asserts that most changes occur inside a wound and are difficult to measure accurately. Health care practitioners apply different standards for evaluating wound depth and size, from rulers and cotton swabs to existing software where the measurement of a flat 2D image fails to accurately capture the topology of the wound. The new system uses a geodesic measurement to calculate and create a path along a 3D surface to evaluate the entire dimension of a wound and obtain a sensitive indicator of how a wound changes indicating its progress. To read the full story.