A low-cost body inertial-sensing network for practical gait discrimination of hemiplegia patients

Telemedicine and e-Health

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 748-754

  Guo, Yanwei ^a,b   Wu, Dan ^a   Liu, Guanzheng ^a   Zhao, Guoru ^a   Huang, Bangyu ^a   Wang, Lei ^a  

^a University Town of Shenzhen   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

body sensor network; gait analysis; hemiplegia

Indexed keywords

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; GAIT ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

HEMIPLEGIA; HEMIPLEGIA PATIENT; INERTIAL MEASUREMENTS; MEASUREMENT NODES; THREE AXIS ACCELEROMETERS; THREE-AXIS GYROSCOPES; THREE-AXIS MAGNETOMETER; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS;

DISCRIMINATORS;

EID: 84871277042     PISSN: 15305627     EISSN: 15563669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2012.0014     Document Type: Article

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