Human motion segmentation by data point classification

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2014:2014:9-13. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6943516.

Abstract

Contemporary physiotherapy and rehabilitation practice uses subjective measures for motion evaluation and requires time-consuming supervision. Algorithms that can accurately segment patient movement would provide valuable data for progress tracking and on-line patient feedback. In this paper, we propose a two-class classifier approach to label each data point in the patient movement data as either a segment point or a non-segment point. The proposed technique was applied to 20 healthy subjects performing lower body rehabilitation exercises, and achieves a segmentation accuracy of 82%.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Humans
  • Knee Joint / physiology
  • Movement
  • Rehabilitation
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted*
  • Support Vector Machine