Abstract
In clinical rehabilitation, biofeedback increases patient’s motivation making it one of the most effective motor rehabilitation mechanisms. In this field, it is very helpful for the patient and even for the therapist to know the level of success and performance of the training process. New rehabilitation technologies allow new forms of therapy for patients with Range of Motion (ROM) disorders. The aim of this work is to introduce a simple biofeedback system in a clinical environment for ROM measurements, since there is currently a lack of practical and cost-efficient methods available for this purpose. The Microsoft Kinect™introduces the possibility of low cost, non intrusive human motion analysis in the rehabilitation field. In this paper we conduct a comparison study of the accuracy in the computation of ROM measurements between the Kinect™Skeleton Tracking provided by Microsoft and the proposed algorithm based on depth analysis. Experimental results showed that our algorithm is able to overcome the limitations of the Microsoft algorithm when the pose estimation is used as a measuring system making it a valuable rehabilitation tool.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Physiological Computing Systems |
Subtitle of host publication | First International Conference, PhyCS 2014, Lisbon, Portugal, January 7-9, 2014, Revised Selected Papers |
Editors | Hugo Plácido da Silva, Andreas Holzinger, Stephen Fairclough, Dennis Majoe |
Place of Publication | Berlin Heidelberg |
Publisher | Springer-Verlag |
Pages | 91-104 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-662-45686-6 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-662-45685-9 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Event | 1st International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems (PhyCS) - Lisbon, Portugal Duration: 7 Jan 2014 → 9 Jan 2014 Conference number: 1st |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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Publisher | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
Volume | 8908 |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
Conference
Conference | 1st International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems (PhyCS) |
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Abbreviated title | PhyCS |
Country | Portugal |
City | Lisbon |
Period | 7/01/14 → 9/01/14 |
Keywords
- Biofeedback
- Depth camera
- Range of motion