Clinical gait assessment of older adults using open platform tools

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 462-465

  Scanaill, Cliodhna Ni ^a   Greene, Barry R ^a   Doheny, Emer P ^a   O'Donovan, Karol ^a,c   O'Shea, Terrance ^a   O'Donovan, Alan D ^a   Foran, Tim ^b   Cunningham, Clodagh ^b   Kenny, Rose Anne ^b  

^a Intel Research Cambridge Lab   (United Kingdom)

^b ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c Shimmer Research   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EASE OF USE; FLEXIBLE PLATFORMS; GAIT PARAMETERS; KINEMATIC SENSORS; OLDER ADULTS; PRESSURE SENSITIVE; SPATIAL PARAMETERS; WEB CAMERA;

RATING;

GAIT ANALYSIS;

ACTIMETRY; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FALLING; GAIT; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACTIGRAPHY; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; GAIT; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84861931190     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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