Objective real-time assessment of walking and turning in elderly adults

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 807-810

  Škrba, Zoran ^a   O'Mullane, Brian ^a   Greene, Barry R ^b   Ni Scanaill, Cliodhna ^b   Fan, Chie Wei ^c   Quigley, Aaron ^a   Nixon, Paddy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Leixlip House Hotel   (Ireland)

^c ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

BODY-WORN SENSORS; CLINICAL MEASURE; DERIVED PARAMETERS; ELDERLY ADULTS; REAL-TIME ASSESSMENT; RECENT RESEARCHES; VIDEO ANALYSIS; VIDEO TECHNOLOGIES;

ENGINEERING;

EID: 77951011236     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333934     Document Type: Conference Paper

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