Human motion tracking for rehabilitation-A survey

Biomedical Signal Processing and Control

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-18

  Zhou, Huiyu ^a   Hu, Huosheng ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomedical signal processing; Control; Motion tracking; Sensor technology; Stroke rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOSENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; HUMAN MOTION TRACKING; SENSOR TECHNOLOGY; STROKE REHABILITATION; TRACKING SYSTEMS;

PATIENT REHABILITATION;

BODY MOVEMENT; CAMERA; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EYE TRACKING; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; KINEMATICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION MEDICINE; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SENSOR; STROKE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VIRTUAL REALITY; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 38949177442     PISSN: 17468094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2007.09.001     Document Type: Review

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