Hermes: Mobile balance and instability assessment system

BIOSIGNALS 2010 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Bio-inpsired Systems and Signal Processing, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 264-270

  Noshadi, Hyduke ^a   Ahmadian, Shaun ^a   Hagopian, Hagop ^a   Woodbridge, Jonathan ^a   Dabiri, Foad ^a   Amini, Navid ^a   Sarrafzadeh, Majid ^a   Terrafranca, Nick ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b MesiSens   (United States)

Author keywords

Instability modeling and analysis; Plantar pressure sensing; Sensor selection; Wireless health

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT MODELS; ASSESSMENT SYSTEM; EMBEDDED SENSING; FALL RISK; HOSPITAL SETTINGS; HUMAN BALANCE; INSTABILITY ANALYSIS; LABORATORY ENVIRONMENT; LONG TERM MONITORING; MODELING AND ANALYSIS; MODELING TECHNIQUE; MOTION STUDY; PLANTAR PRESSURE SENSING; QUANTITATIVE VALUES; REDUCED COST; SCIENTIFIC TOOL; SENSOR SELECTION; SYSTEM MONITORS; WALKING BEHAVIOR; WIRELESS HEALTH;

GAIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH RISKS; PRESSURE SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STABILITY;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 77956434407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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