Recognition of finger flexion from ultrasound image with optical flow: A preliminary study

2010 International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science, ICBECS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Shi, Jun ^a   Hu, Shu Xian ^a   Liu, Zhi ^a   Guo, Jing Yi ^b   Zhou, Yong Jin ^b   Zheng, Yong Ping ^b  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Finger; Flexion; Optical flow; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

EXTENSOR MUSCLES; FINGER; FINGER FLEXION; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; MUSCLE CONTRACTIONS; MUSCLE DEFORMATION; OPTICAL FLOW ALGORITHM; SKELETAL MUSCLE CONTRACTION; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DEFORMATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MUSCLE; PATIENT REHABILITATION; ULTRASONICS;

OPTICAL FLOWS;

EID: 77953300877     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICBECS.2010.5462343     Document Type: Conference Paper

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