Comparison of two software packages for data analysis at gait laboratories

Author

Moraes, J.C.T.B. ; Silva, S.W.S. ; Battistela, L.R.

Author_Institution

Biomed. Eng. Lab. of Polytech. Sch., Sao Paulo Univ., Brazil

Volume

2

fYear

2003

Firstpage

1780

Abstract

Gait laboratories are generally used for helping in pathology diagnosis, verifying the efficiency of rehabilitation treatments and evaluating athlete´s performance among other applications. One of the software packages commonly used for this purpose is motion analysis, comprised mainly of one software for data acquisition called Eva Hires, combined with force plates, video cameras and electromyography and one other software for data analysis, Ortho Trak or Kin Trak, which shows the 3D trajectories and torques resultant from the gait session. This paper describes part of a research involving these softwares, comparing the results obtained by Ortho Trak and Kin Trak for the same set of acquired data.

Keywords

biomedical measurement; data acquisition; data analysis; gait analysis; image motion analysis; medical image processing; patient diagnosis; position control; software packages; torque measurement; 3D trajectories; Eva Hires; Gait laboratories; Kin Trak; Ortho Trak; athletes performance; data acquisition; data analysis; electromyography; force plates; gait software packages comparison; motion analysis; pathology diagnosis; rehabilitation treatments; video cameras; Biomedical engineering; Data analysis; Hip; Hospitals; Laboratories; Manufacturing; Medical diagnostic imaging; Motion analysis; Software packages; Thigh;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2003. Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7789-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2003.1279760

Filename

1279760