Bone length calibration can significantly improve the measurement accuracy of knee flexion angle when using a marker-less system to capture the motion of countermovement jump

Autor: Stephen Smith, Mark McGroarty, Friedrich Wetterling, Dara Meldrum, Stuart O'Brien, Susan Giblin, Karl Grogan, Simon Rand
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: BHI
DOI: 10.1109/bhi.2016.7455917
Popis: Marker-less motion capture systems can provide online recordings of human biomechanics during rapid dynamic exercises such as countermovement jump (CMJ) which could indicate an athlete's risk of injury to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). However, without additional postprocessing the localisation accuracy of the joints can be insufficient. Subsequently, biomechanics measurements, e.g. knee flexion angles, can be severely corrupted. We propose a calibration algorithm to correct for deviations in the bone length during CMJ as recorded by a low cost marker-less motion capture system (i.e. Kinect, version 2). Results were compared to gold standard VICON measurements. In this single subject study of three CMJs the accuracy of the measured knee flexion angle during stabilisation (post jump) was significantly improved from −9.6° to −3.8° (p
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