Wearable monitoring of lumbar spine curvature by inertial and e-textile sensory fusion

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 6373-6376

  Bartalesi, R ^a   Lorussi, F ^a   De Rossi, D ^a   Tesconi, M ^a   Tognetti, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; LOCAL CURVATURE; LUMBAR SPINES; NONLINEARITIES; PIEZORESISTIVE SENSORS; REAL-TIME ESTIMATION; SENSORY FUSION; STRAIN SENSING; TRIAXIAL ACCELEROMETER; WEARABLE SYSTEMS;

ACCELEROMETERS; ARCHES; SENSOR ARRAYS; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

TEXTILES;

EID: 78650852487     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627294     Document Type: Conference Paper

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