OBJECTIVES: Accurate assessment of knee alignment and leg length discrepancy is currently measured manually from standing long-leg radiographs (LLR), a process that is both time consuming and poorly reproducible. The aim was to assess the performance...
The work presents a bio-inspired design approach to a soft-robotic solution for assisting the knee-bending in users with reduced mobility in lower limbs. Exosuits and fluid-driven actuators are fabric-based devices that are gaining increasing relevan...
Early and self-identification of locomotive degradation facilitates us with awareness and motivation to prevent further deterioration. We propose the usage of nine squat and four one-leg standing exercise features as input parameters to Machine Learn...
To improve the recognition rate of lower limb actions based on surface electromyography (sEMG), an effective weighted feature method is proposed, and an improved genetic algorithm support vector machine (IGA-SVM) is designed in this paper. First, for...
Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
Sep 9, 2021
BACKGROUND: Walking with a haptic tensile force applied to the hand in a virtual environment (VE) can induce adaptation effects in both chronic stroke and non-stroke individuals. These effects are reflected in spatiotemporal outcomes such as gait spe...
OBJECTIVE: Prediction of amputation wound healing is challenging due to the multifactorial nature of critical limb ischemia and lack of objective assessment tools. Up to one-third of amputations require revision to a more proximal level within 1 year...
OBJECTIVE: To develop and validate a convolutional neural network (CNN) capable of predicting the anatomical landmarks used to calculate the hip-knee-ankle angles (HKAAs) from radiographs and thereby quantify lower extremity alignments in children.
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of engineering in medicine
Jul 13, 2021
The field of robot-assisted physical rehabilitation and robotics technology for providing support to the elderly population is rapidly evolving. Lower limb robot aided rehabilitation and assistive technology have been a focus for the engineering comm...
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
Jun 14, 2021
BACKGROUND: Robotic-assisted total knee arthroplasty (TKA) was performed to promote the accuracy of bone resection and mechanical alignment. Among these TKA system procedures, 3D reconstruction of CT data of lower limbs consumes significant manpower....
This paper presents a periodic event-triggered sliding mode control (SMC) scheme based on human-robot cooperation for lower limb exoskeletons. Firstly, a Genetic Algorithm-Back propagation (GA-BP) neural network is proposed to estimate the motion int...
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