Looking for differences in postural control systems: Young students versus pensioners

Proceedings of the 6th IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, BioMED 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 108-112

  Rasku, Jyrki ^a   Juhola, Martti ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Pattern recognition; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

BALANCE DISORDERS; FORCE PLATFORMS; POSTURAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 62949218372     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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