Markerless motion capture for the clinical assessment of human movement

描述（由申请人提供）：随着美国人口老龄化，由于疾病和受伤导致的行走功能丧失对社会的影响越来越大，对退伍军人的影响更大。有效评估和康复活动功能障碍的方法的发展将对美国人口的活动寿命产生巨大的积极影响。该项目的总体目标是调整先前开发的无标记运动捕捉系统原型，以简单，高效和准确地提供人体运动的3D测量，用于生物力学和临床实践。本研究的重点是对新的无标记系统进行额外的开发，该系统将允许非技术用户在临床环境中通过开发和测试新的用户界面来操作该系统，并自动生成受试者的特定解剖模型，以支持临床医生的诊断/康复工作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Loss of ambulatory function due to disease and injury has an increasing societal impact as the US population ages and has an even greater impact on veterans. The development of methods for effective assessment and rehabilitation of impairments of the ambulatory function would have a great positive impact on the active life span of the US population. The overall objective of this project is to adapt a previously developed markerless motion capture system prototype to simply, efficiently and accurately provide 3D measurements of human movement for applications in biomechanical and clinical practice. The specific focus of this study is the implementation of additional development on the new markerless system that will permit the system to be operated by a non-technical user in a clinical environment by developing and testing a new user interface and automatically generating subject-specific anatomical models of the subjects to support clinicians in their diagnostic/rehabilitative work. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The overall objective of this project is to further develop and productize a markerless motion capture system for applications in biomechanical and clinical practice. The markerless system, as opposed to traditionally used marker based systems, would provide simple, cost effective, efficient and accurate 3D measurements of human movement for applications in biomechanical and clinical practice. The specific focus of this study is additional development on the new markerless system that will permit the system to be operated by a non- technical user in a clinical environment by developing and testing a new user interface and automatically generating subject-specific anatomical models of the subjects