Video-Based Hand Tracking for Screening Cervical Myelopathy

Ryota Matsui, Takafumi Koyama, Koji Fujita, Hideo Saito, Yuta Sugiura

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Abstract

Cervical myelopathy (CM) is a pathology of the spinal cord that causes upper limb disorders. CM is often screened by conducting the 10-s grip and release (G&R) test, which mainly focuses on hand dysfunction caused by CM. This test has patients repeat gripping and releasing their hands as quickly as possible. Spine surgeons observe the quickness of this repetition to screen for CM. We propose an automatic screening method of CM that involves patients’ hands recorded as videos when they are performing the G&R test. The videos are used to estimate feature values, i.e., the positions of each part of the hand, which are obtained through image processing. A support vector machine classifier classifies CM patients and controls with these feature values after pre-processing. We validated our method with 10-fold cross-validation and the videos of 20 CM patients and 15 controls. The results indicate that sensitivity, specificity, and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve were 90.0 %, 93.3 %, and 0.947, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Visual Computing - 16th International Symposium, ISVC 2021, Proceedings
EditorsGeorge Bebis, Vassilis Athitsos, Tong Yan, Manfred Lau, Frederick Li, Conglei Shi, Xiaoru Yuan, Christos Mousas, Gerd Bruder
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages3-14
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783030904357
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Event16th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2021 - Virtual Online
Duration: 2021 Oct 42021 Oct 6

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13018 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2021
CityVirtual Online
Period21/10/421/10/6

Keywords

  • Cervical myelopathy
  • Gesture classification
  • Hand tracking
  • Medical image processing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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