Venugopalan Janani, Cheng Chihwen, Stokes Todd H, Wang May D
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2013;2013:4625-8. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610578.
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the age group of 0 - 44 years. Though physical exercises have proven benefits in the rehabilitation process, the compliance rate of patients in the home environment is poor. In this paper we propose a system, MotionTalk, which captures and analyses motion data acquired using Microsoft Kinect. It is designed to give a real time quantitative assessment of the exercises performed by TBI patients at home with respect to the same exercises performed in the clinic by utilizing relatively inexpensive contactless sensing and dynamic programming techniques. In comparison to previous reminder systems, wearable systems, and motion capture systems, MotionTalk is less intrusive in nature and inexpensive to deploy at home because it is based on readily available hardware. This was developed and tested on able bodied volunteers and in the future we hope to test it on patients with TBI, after IRB approval.
创伤性脑损伤（TBI）是0至44岁年龄组死亡和残疾的主要原因之一。尽管体育锻炼在康复过程中已被证明有益，但患者在家庭环境中的依从率很低。在本文中，我们提出了一个名为MotionTalk的系统，该系统可以捕获并分析使用微软Kinect获取的运动数据。它旨在通过利用相对廉价的非接触式传感和动态编程技术，对在家中进行锻炼的TBI患者的运动情况与在诊所进行的相同锻炼进行实时定量评估。与以前的提醒系统、可穿戴系统和运动捕捉系统相比，MotionTalk本质上干扰性较小，并且由于基于现成的硬件，在家中部署成本较低。这是在身体健全的志愿者身上开发和测试的，未来我们希望在获得机构审查委员会（IRB）批准后，对TBI患者进行测试。
