A Kinect-Based Portable Automatic Gait Analysis System: An Experimental Validation
Journal Title: Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research (BJSTR) - Year 2019, Vol 17, Issue 1
Abstract
Gait analysis has established in recent years as an essential tool to quantify rehabilitation effectiveness. Nevertheless, available commercial systems need a structured environment, are very expensive, require an exact calibration and are not portable. Recently, it has been verified that Kinect can be used for kinematics assessment and has been placed side by side to commercial systems, taking advantage of the potentiality of both systems to provide more detailed analysis. The proposed method aims at having a low‐ cost, easy to use, markerless and portable Kinect‐based system that can perform gait analysis without needing an accurate calibration and a structured environment.Gait analysis has established in recent years as an essential tool to quantify rehabilitation effectiveness. Gait assessment has become widespread in clinical practice to evaluate and implement physiotherapy treatments, in order to distinguish between disease entities and to customise rehabilitation programs [1].Neurological and neurodegenerative diseases may alter normal gait patterns; for this reason, assessing kinematic and dynamic parameters during deambulation is crucial, in order to detect impairments underlying reduced motor functions [1]. BTS Gaitlab (BTS Bioengineering Corp. Quincy, MA 02169 USA) is a complete system for clinical gait analysis, which integrates kinematic, dynamic and electromyographic (EMG) parameters
Authors and Affiliations
Luigi Pavone, Gabriele Pasqua, Paolo Ricciuti, Daniele Cafolla
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- DOI 10.26717/BJSTR.2019.17.002951
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