Review of automated systems for upper limbs functional assessment in neurorehabilitation

EDO Simbaña, PSH Baeza, AJ Huete… - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditionally, the assessment of upper limb (UL) motor function in neurorehabilitation is
carried out by clinicians using standard clinical tests for objective evaluation, but which …

Intra-subject and inter-subject movement variability quantified with muscle synergies in upper-limb reaching movements

K Zhao, Z Zhang, H Wen, A Scano - Biomimetics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Quantifying movement variability is a crucial aspect for clinical and laboratory investigations
in several contexts. However, very few studies have assessed, in detail, the intra-subject …

Analysis of upper-limb and trunk kinematic variability: Accuracy and reliability of an RGB-D sensor

A Scano, RM Mira, P Cerveri, L Molinari Tosatti… - Multimodal …, 2020 - mdpi.com
In the field of motion analysis, the gold standard devices are marker-based tracking systems.
Despite being very accurate, their cost, stringent working environments, and long …

Low-cost tracking systems allow fine biomechanical evaluation of upper-limb daily-life gestures in healthy people and post-stroke patients

A Scano, F Molteni, L Molinari Tosatti - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Since the release of the first Kinect in 2011, low-cost technologies for upper-limb evaluation
has been employed frequently for rehabilitation purposes. However, a limited number of …

Kinect V2 implementation and testing of the reaching performance scale for motor evaluation of patients with neurological impairment

A Scano, A Chiavenna, M Malosio, LM Tosatti… - Medical engineering & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Automated procedures for neurological patients' motor evaluation may take advantage of the
coupling between clinical scales and motion tracking devices to provide affordable …

Compressive sensing based recognition of human upper limb motions with kinect skeletal data

K Ashwini, R Amutha - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2021 - Springer
Limb motion recognition and assessment tasks have become one of the most substantial
techniques in clinical environment to evaluate the motor capabilities of neurological patients …

Gender detection using 3d anthropometric measurements by kinect

S Camalan, G Sengul, S Misra… - Metrology and …, 2018 - epubl.ktu.edu
Abstract [eng] Automatic gender detection is a process of determining the gender of a
human according to the characteristic properties that represent the masculine and feminine …

Biomechanical assessment of the ipsilesional upper limb in post-stroke patients during multi-joint reaching tasks: A quantitative study

A Scano, E Guanziroli, RM Mira, C Brambilla… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In hemiplegic patients with stroke, investigating the ipsilesional limb may shed light on the
upper limb motor control, impairments and mechanisms of functional recovery. Usually …

Mother-Infant Interaction Kinect Analysis (MIIKA): An automatic kinematic-based methodology for the investigation of interpersonal distance during early exchanges

E Guida, A Scano, F Storm, E Biffi, G Reni… - Infant Behavior and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Interpersonal distance is a core aspect of mother-child interaction. While conventional
measures based on human coders do not fully capture the dynamics of this feature …

Fractal characteristics-based motor dyskinesia assessment

K Zhao, H Wen, Z Zhang, C He, J Wu - Biomedical Signal Processing and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Goal The purpose of the study was to evaluate the feasibility of fractal characteristics (FCs)
in the motor dyskinesia assessment. Methods The study recruited twenty stroke patients and …