On the Fly Reporting of Human Body Movement based on Kinect v2

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2018

Authors

Joana Rodrigues (Author) Other; Paulo Maia (Author) Other; Miguel Pereira Choupina (Author) Other; João Paulo Silva Cunha (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2018, Honolulu, HI, USA, July 18-21, 2018

Pages: 1546-1549

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Authenticus ID: P-00P-YC4

DOI: 10.1109/embc.2018.8512454

Abstract (EN): Human gait analysis is of utmost importance in understanding several aspects of human movement. In clinical practice, characterizing movement in order to obtain accurate and reliable information is a major challenge, and physicians usually rely on direct observation in order to evaluate a patient's motor abilities. In this contribution, a system that can objectively analyze the patients gait and generate an on the fly, targeted and optimized gait analysis report is presented. It is an extension to an existing system that could be used without interfering with the healthcare environment, which did not provide any on the fly feedback to physicians. Patient data are acquired using Kinect v2, followed by data processing, gait specific feature extraction, ending with the generation of a quantitative on the fly report. To the best of our knowledge, the complete system fills the gap as a proper gait analysis system, i.e., a low-cost tool that can be applied without interfering with the healthcare environment, provide quantitative gait information and on the fly feedback to physicians through a motion quantification report that can be useful in multiple areas. © 2018 IEEE.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 4