IGAIT: An interactive accelerometer based gait analysis system

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 715-723

  Yang, Mingjing ^a   Zheng, Huiru ^a   Wang, Haiying ^a   McClean, Sally ^a   Newell, Dave ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ANGLO EUROPEAN COLLEGE OF CHIROPRACTIC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Feature extraction; Gait analysis; MATLAB

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION DATA; ACCELEROMETER DATA; ANALYSIS PROCESS; ANALYSIS SYSTEM; CORE FUNCTIONS; GAIT PATTERN; GRAPHICAL INTERFACE; SAMPLE FREQUENCY; SOFTWARE PROGRAM; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SPECTRAL FEATURE; SYMMETRY FEATURES; TEXT FILE; UNIQUE FEATURES; WINDOW XP;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; GAIT ANALYSIS; MATLAB;

ACCELEROMETERS;

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETER; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WALKING SPEED;

ACCELEROMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; GAIT; HUMANS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84867400533     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2012.04.004     Document Type: Article

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