Reliability and accuracy of an automated tracking algorithm to measure controlled passive and active muscle fascicle length changes from ultrasound

Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 678-687

  Gillett, Jarred G ^a   Barrett, Rod S ^a   Lichtwark, Glen A ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

affine flow; medial gastrocnemius; muscle fascicle tracking; ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER VISION; OPTICAL FLOWS; TRACKING (POSITION); ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

AFFINE FLOW; AUTOMATED ALGORITHMS; MEDIAL GASTROCNEMIUS; MULTIPLE CORRELATION; MUSCLE FASCICLES; OPTICAL FLOW ALGORITHM; TIME-EFFICIENT METHODS; TRACKING ALGORITHM;

MUSCLE;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; AUTOMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84878626781     PISSN: 10255842     EISSN: 14768259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2011.633516     Document Type: Article

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