Body sway measurement for fall risk assessment using inexpensive webcams

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2225-2229

  Wang, Fang ^a   Skubic, Marjorie ^a   Abbott, Carmen ^b   Keller, James M ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR-POSTERIOR DIRECTIONS; BODY SWAY; CALIBRATED CAMERAS; DAILY LIVING; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; DIFFERENT SPEED; ELDERLY PEOPLE; FALL RISK; FRAME RATE; LATERAL DIRECTIONS; MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM; POTENTIAL CAPABILITY; SPACE RESOLUTIONS; WEB CAMERA; WEBCAMS;

CAMERAS; EXPERIMENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FALLING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WALKING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MOVEMENT; POSTURAL BALANCE; POSTURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; WALKING;

EID: 78650827313     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626100     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (20)

1. B. E. Maki, P. J. Holliday, G. R. Fernie, "Aging and Postural Control: A Comparison of Spontaneous and Induced Sway Balance Test," Journal of the American Geriatric Society, vol. 38, pp. 1-9, 1990.
2. M. H. Woollacott, A. Shumway-Cook, L. M. Nashner LM, "Aging and Posture Control: Changes in Sensory Organization and Muscular Coordination," Int J Aging Hum Dev, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 97-114, 1986.
3. K.O. Berg, B. E. Maki BE, J. I. Williams, P. J. Holliday, S. L. Wood- Dauphinee, "Clinical and Laboratory Measures of Postural Balance in an Elderly Population," Arch Phys Med Rehabil, vol. 73, no. 11, pp. 1073-1080, 1992.
4. W. W. Spirduso, "Physical Dimensions of Aging. Human Kinetics," Champaign Illinois USA, 1995.
5. K. O. Berg, S. Wood-Dauphinee, J. I. Williams and D. Gayton, "Measuring Balance in the Elderly: Preliminary Development of an Instrument," Physiotherapy Canada, vol 41, pp. 304- 311, 1989.
6. A. M. Wing, S. Clapp, and R. Burgess-Limerick, "Standing Stability in the Frontal Plane Determined by Lateral Forces Applied to the Hip," Gait Posture, vol. 3, pp. 38-42, 1995.
7. H. Chang and D. E. Krebs, "Dynamic Balance Control in Elders: Gait Initiation Assessment as a Screening Tool," Arch. Phys. Med. Rehabil, vol. 80, pp. 490-494, 1999.
8. S. Lord, R. Clark and I. Webster, "Postural Stability and Associated Physiological Factors in a Population of Aged Persons," J. Gerontol vol. 46, M69-76, 1991.
9. U.S.L. Nayak, "Comparison of the Wright Ataxiameter and the Kistler Force Platform in the Measurement of Sway," J Biomed Eng, vol. 9, pp. 302-304, 1987.
10. T. L. Kinney LaPier, S. Liddle and C. Bain, "A Comparison of Static and Dynamic Standing Balance in Older Men Versus Women," Physiotherapy Canada, vol. 49, pp. 207-213, 1997.
11. P. Era and E. Heikkinen, "Postural Sway During Standing and Unexpected Disturbance of Balance in Random Samples of Men of Different Ages," J Gerontol, vol. 40, pp. 287-295, 1985.
12. R. C. Woledge, D. B. Birtles, D. J. Newham, "The Variable Component of Lateral Body Sway During Walking in Young and Older Humans," Journal of Gerontology, vol. 60A, no. 11, pp. 1463- 1468, 2005.
13. M. Goffredo, M. Schmid, S. Conforto, and T. D'Alessio, "A Markerless Sub-pixel Motion Estimation Technique to Reconstruct Kinematics and Estimate the Center of Mass in Posturography," Medical Engineering & Physics, vol. 28, pp. 719-726, 2006.
14. S. J. Allin, C. Beach, A. Mitz and A. Mihailidis, "Video Based Analysis of Standing Balance in a Community Center," Proc. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, pp. 4531-4534, 2008.
15. G. Demiris, O. D. Parker, J. Giger, M. Skubic, M. Rantz M, "Older Adults' Privacy Considerations for Vision Based Recognition Methods of Eldercare Applications," Technology and Health Care, vol. 17, no. 1, pp 41-48, 2009.
16. R. H. Luke, "Moving Object Segmentation from Video Using Fused Color and Texture Features in Indoor Enviroments," Technical Report, CIRL, University of Missouri, 2008.
17. D. Anderson, R. H. Luke, J. M. Keller, M. Skubic, M. Rantz and M. Aud, "Linguistic Summarization of Video for Fall Detection Using Voxel Person and Fuzzy Logic," Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 113, pp. 80-89, 2008.
18. F. Wang, E. Stone, W. Dai, M. Skubic and J. Keller, "Gait Analysis and Validation Using Voxel Data," Proc. 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Minneapolis, MN, pp. 6127-6130. 2009.
19. Jean-Yves Bouguet, "Camera Calibration Toolbox for Matlab," http://www.vision.caltech.edu/bouguetj/calib-doc/.
20. D. Anderson, R. H. Luke, E. Stone, and J. M. Keller, "Fuzzy Voxel Model for Human Activity Analysis," International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA), Lisbon, Portugal, July 2009.