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This is the first proceedings of Diabetic Foot Ulcer (DFU) research focusing on the DFU Challenge 2021 (DFUC 2021), organized in conjunction with the 24th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2021). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the challenge event was conducted online on September 27, 2021. We received 500 submissions for the validation stage and 28 submissions for the testing stage.

The overall goal of the DFU challenge is to solicit original works in DFU and to promote interactions between researchers and interdisciplinary (national and international) collaborators. It aims to motivate the health care domain to share datasets, participate in ground truth annotation, and enable data-innovation in computer algorithm development. In the longer term, it will lead to improved patient care and reduce the strain on overburdened healthcare …