Tools for the Biomechanical Analysis of Human Movement: Application to Knee Osteoarthritis

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My research career has focused on the development of engineering tools for the analysis of human movement. Working with my students, my research has contributed significantly to the development of techniques for the analysis and classification of human movement data. A challenge of biomechanical data is the substantial variability that may be confounded by uncertainties in the experimental methods. Ensuring reliable and consistent data within laboratories for longitudinal studies, between laboratories for data comparison, or in multicentre studies is, therefore, a significant and worthy challenge. I am proposing to improve the robustness and sensitivity of our classification techniques by quantifying and removing this nuisance variation. One of the key features of this new approach is that it can be applied to data already collected instead of only prescribing how data should be collected in the future.