Danckaers Femke, Stanković Kristina, Huysmans Toon, Booth Brian G, Sijbers Jan
imec - Vision Lab, Department of Physics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Section on Applied Ergonomics & Design, Department of Human-Centered Design, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands.
Front Bioeng Biotechnol. 2024 Sep 5;12:1416499. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2024.1416499. eCollection 2024.
Foot shape assessment is important to characterise the complex shape of a foot, which is in turn essential for accurate design of foot orthoses and footwear, as well as quantification of foot deformities (e.g., hallux valgus). Numerous approaches have been described over the past few decades to evaluate foot shape for orthotic and footwear purposes, as well as for investigating how one's habits and personal characteristics influence the foot shape. This paper presents the developments reported in the literature for foot shape assessment.
In particular, we focus on four main dimensions common to any foot assessment: (a) the choice of measurements to collect, (b) how objective these measurement procedures are, (c) how the foot measurements are analyzed, and (d) other common characteristics that can impact foot shape analysis.
For each dimension, we summarize the most commonly used techniques and identify additional considerations that need to be made to achieve a reliable foot shape assessment.
We present how different choices along these two dimensions impact the resulting foot assessment, and discuss possible improvements in the field of foot shape assessment.
足部形状评估对于刻画足部的复杂形状很重要，而这对于足部矫形器和鞋类的精确设计以及足部畸形（例如拇外翻）的量化又是必不可少的。在过去几十年里，已经描述了许多用于评估足部形状以用于矫形和鞋类目的以及研究个人习惯和特征如何影响足部形状的方法。本文介绍了文献中报道的足部形状评估的进展。
具体而言，我们关注任何足部评估共有的四个主要方面：（a）要收集的测量值的选择，（b）这些测量程序的客观程度，（c）足部测量值的分析方式，以及（d）可能影响足部形状分析的其他共同特征。
对于每个方面，我们总结了最常用的技术，并确定了为实现可靠的足部形状评估需要考虑的其他因素。
我们展示了沿着这两个方面的不同选择如何影响最终的足部评估，并讨论了足部形状评估领域可能的改进。
