TY - GEN
T1 - Self-assessment application of flexion and extension
AU - Ienaga, Naoto
AU - Sugiura, Yuta
AU - Saito, Hideo
AU - Fujita, Koji
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was supported by JST AIP-PRISM Grant Number JPMJCR18Y2, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow Grant Number JP17J05489.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/3
Y1 - 2019/3
N2 - The measurement of range of motion during medical examination is a basic procedure in diagnosis and treatment evaluation. However, accurate measurement requires experience, and it is difficult for patients to measure range of motion by themselves. If patients can easily and accurately measure the range by their own, it will encourage patients to continue rehabilitation and will be useful for helping patients to determine when they should see a doctor. We developed a wrist flexion and extension measurement system using images captured by a smart phone so that patients can measure range of motion without expert knowledge or experience. First, the system calculates a middle line for the forearm and an outside line for the dorsal hand based on user inputs. Afterward, the angle formed by these lines is calculated. The experimental results show that the average absolute errors are 4.82° for flexion and 8.74° for extension.
AB - The measurement of range of motion during medical examination is a basic procedure in diagnosis and treatment evaluation. However, accurate measurement requires experience, and it is difficult for patients to measure range of motion by themselves. If patients can easily and accurately measure the range by their own, it will encourage patients to continue rehabilitation and will be useful for helping patients to determine when they should see a doctor. We developed a wrist flexion and extension measurement system using images captured by a smart phone so that patients can measure range of motion without expert knowledge or experience. First, the system calculates a middle line for the forearm and an outside line for the dorsal hand based on user inputs. Afterward, the angle formed by these lines is calculated. The experimental results show that the average absolute errors are 4.82° for flexion and 8.74° for extension.
KW - Hand surgery
KW - Range of motion
KW - Self-assessment
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U2 - 10.1109/LifeTech.2019.8884003
DO - 10.1109/LifeTech.2019.8884003
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85074875939
T3 - 2019 IEEE 1st Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies, LifeTech 2019
SP - 150
EP - 152
BT - 2019 IEEE 1st Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies, LifeTech 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 1st IEEE Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies, LifeTech 2019
Y2 - 12 March 2019 through 14 March 2019
ER -