2026/10/06 13:50
The light and multispectral imaging chronic wound healing system developed by National Cheng Kung University Distinguished Professor Lin Zhilong (4th from the right) was recognized by the National Academy of Sciences’ National Research Gold Award for Excellence. (Photo by reporter Yang Yuanting)
[Reporter Yang Yuanting/Report from Taipei] In recognition of the top scientific research results published by domestic scientists using the research and development platform of the National Research Institute, the National Research Institute held the National Research Gold Award today (6th). This year’s Outstanding Award was won by the team of Distinguished Professor Lin Zhilong of the Department of Electrical Engineering of National Taiwan University. Lin Zhilong’s team developed a light and multispectral imaging chronic wound healing system to improve the diagnosis efficiency of burns, scalds and skin wounds and reduce the medical burden. In the future, the system will also be developed and used in remote care.
The National Research Institute holds awards every year to recognize the country's top scholars. This year's special award was won by Lin Chi-long. Lin Chi-long used to serve in the industry and later turned to academia. The platform developed by Lin Chi-long is provided by the National Instruments Center affiliated to the National Research Institute, such as integration support and other key services. He said that the academic world is full of idealism, while the industry has the strength to achieve its mission. Thanks to the National Instruments Center's combination of ideals and swordsmanship, the process of platform promotion can be smoothly accelerated.
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Lin Zhilong said that the development of this platform was a coincidence. He said that during the Eight Immortals Dust explosion, there were a large number of injuries and scalds patients in a short period of time. There was a serious shortage of dressings in the country. He was shocked to realize that Taiwan relied on imported dressings. The industry wanted to develop dressings and approached him. Later, he discovered that before choosing a dressing, you must first check the extent of the injury, but in the past, the inspection of injuries The degree of injury relies on visual inspection by doctors. Later, the team discovered that the skin will affect blood oxygen concentration depending on the degree of injury and have different signals to light. Therefore, they developed this platform to assist in injury detection and actually applied it in National Cheng Kung University Hospital. They found that through this platform, patients can be triaged more quickly, and it can also help patients understand how many days it will take for the wound to recover.
Lin Zhilong further pointed out that in the future, the system also hopes to be used in wound care for diabetic patients. Many diabetic patients often have problems such as recurring wounds. It will allow doctors to understand the patient's wound status through the remote home care system to decide whether to seek medical treatment, reducing the patient's hard work of traveling back and forth to the hospital, and also making the hospital less congested.
The results developed by Lin Zhilong have obtained multiple patents at home and abroad. In addition to being used in Chengda Hospital, they will also be further promoted to regional hospitals in the future.
