Год выпуска: 2014 Автор: Boniface Mbouzao Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 208 ISBN: 9783659463358
Описание
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a disease in which the body has "turned on itself", with its immune system attacking mobility. The aim of this research is the development of a less costly, widely accessible, passive sensing technology that provides a quantitative assessment of RA and that monitors the therapeutic effectiveness on joint-debilitating diseases. The proposed solution relies on a quantitative evaluation of human gestures. Such a quantitative assessment supports the comparison between the motion capabilities of a patient and that of a healthy person, using a kinematic model of the human skeleton. Criteria for the classification of severity were established, and tables were generated to classify the levels of severity as a function of the measurements extracted from processed videos of a subject performing predefined movements. This research project, while contributing a new tool to the process of classification of RA level of severity, opens the way for using widely...
