Identification of tasks performed by stroke patients using a mobility assistive device

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1501-1504

  Hester, Todd ^a   Sherrill, Delsey M ^a,b   Hamel, Mathieu ^c   Perreault, Karine ^c   Boissy, Patrick ^c   Bonato, Paolo ^a  

^a and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^b MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF GERIATRICS OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; HEALTH CARE; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT TREATMENT;

ANKLE; MOBILITY ASSISTIVE DEVICES; STROKE PATIENTS; THREE AXIS ACCELEROMETERS;

NEUROLOGY;

ACCELERATION; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; CANE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC GAIT DISORDER; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSDUCER;

ACCELERATION; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; CANES; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 34047131802     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259437     Document Type: Conference Paper

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