Gesture therapy: A vision-based system for arm rehabilitation after stroke

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 25 CCIS, Issue , 2008, Pages 531-540

  Sucar, L Enrique ^a   Azcárate, Gildardo ^a   Leder, Ron S ^b   Reinkensmeyer, David ^c   Hernández, Jorge ^d   Sanchez, Israel ^d   Saucedo, Pedro ^e  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSIDAD ANÁHUAC   (Mexico)

Author keywords

computer vision; Rehabilitation; stroke; therapeutic technology

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENTS; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTER VISION ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION SYSTEM; ECONOMIC PRESSURES; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; REHABILITATION; REHABILITATION TECHNOLOGY; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; STATE OF THE ART; STROKE; STROKE PATIENTS; THERAPEUTIC TECHNOLOGY; VISION-BASED SYSTEM; WEB-BASED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; ARM REHABILITATIONS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER VISION; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; TECHNOLOGY; VIRTUAL REALITY; PATIENT REHABILITATION;

MEDICAL COMPUTING; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 77957897032     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-92219-3_40     Document Type: Conference Paper

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