Tracking and Characterization of Spinal Cord-Injured Patients by Means of RGB-D Sensors

This paper proposes a solution including customized motion capture and data elaboration with the aim of supporting medical personnel in the assessment of spinal cord-injured (SCI) patients using a wheelchair. The configuration of the full-body motion capturing system is based on an asymmetric 3 Microsoft Kinect v2 sensor layout that provides a path of up to 6 m, which is required to properly track the wheelchair. Data elaboration is focused on the automatic recognition of the pushing cycles and on plotting any kinematic parameter that may be interesting in the assessment.

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  The measurements computed by the SCI-APP show a good reliability for analyzing the movements of SCI patients’ propulsion wheelchair.
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  The results reached confirm that SCI-APP and the proposed markerless solution are useful for an adequate evaluation of propulsion.
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  The comparison has highlighted mean values very similar to those in the scientific literature.